Hallam Foe

Year: 2007

Actors: Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Jamie Bell, Ewen Bremner

Duration: 95 min

The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide by drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity in the hardest way.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Genre: Action   Drama   Mystery   Romance