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Taming Andrew by Artie Mandelberg
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Craig Eldridge, Jason Beghe, Lynne Deragon, Park Overall, Seth Adkins Director: Artie Mandelberg Cinematographer: Malcolm Cross Editor: Lance Luckey Producer: Joseph E. Miller Producer: Michael Filerman Producer: Michael J. Maschio Producer: Robert Michael Lewis Writer: Susan Rice DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 88 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Starlight Video
Movie Reviews of Taming AndrewMovie Review: Realistic drama showing the bitter side of divorce Summary: 4 StarsFive-year-old Andrew lives with his mom, Gail, and stepdad, Eddie. They have fallen into a normal rhythm of life which includes allowing Andrew's natural father, Ted, visitation rights every other weekend. This weekend should have been like any other when Ted and his teenage girlfriend come to pick Andrew up. Instead, they kidnap him for five years.
As his mom and stepdad await his return they try to go on with life, having another son of their own. Then suddenly, Ted calls out of nowhere and asks Gail to meet him at a pay phone to meet Andrew. After a morning's rat race Gail and Eddie reunite with him as he gets off a bus at a local bus station. He is wearing raunchy clothes and clearly undernourished.
When they take him home the emotional damage that he's endured is painfully obvious. He doesn't trust adults but seeks comfort in his new baby half-brother, E.J. But Eddie is adamant about his stepson's behavior which is proving to be a danger and leaves with his own son.
Now Gail must choose between keeping her new family together and sending her son away to a state institution because he is not adapting to school or to her. She takes him away to her brother's farm where he opens up socially but still is not up to par on his schoolwork.
In the end he does reconcile with his mother, recounting the horrific abuse that he suffered from Ted and his girlfriend. The family comes back together to try again. Ted is later prosecuted, but it does not say how long. We are not told whether Andrew recovers his education in any way or not.
Excellent gut-wrenching drama with a brilliant performance from Seth Adkins.
Summary of Taming AndrewPark Overall (TV's "Empty Nest", "Reba") plays a mother whose son is abducted by her ex-husband who keeps the boy hidden for five years. The boy (Hairy Tale, TV's "Geppetto") is finally returned, but he is intellectually and emotionally stunted and lacks all social skills. His adjustment to a normal life meets with failure. His mother must now make the decision of whether to give up her new husband, family and career to help her son become a normal boy again, or send her son to an institution and lose him forever. Drama. 91 Minutes.
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