Reviving Ophelia

Year: 2010

Actors: Kim Dickens, Jane Kaczmarek, Peter Outerbridge, Lola Tash

Duration: 92 min

Mark Stenwyck is really copying his father's abuse. When he was a child his mother left because her husband, Terry Stenwyck, was abusing her. Terry thinks girls talk trash about guys and tear them down. He's suspicious of Mark's behavior but doesn't really care what he does with Elizabeth Jones or anyone else. Terry has raised Mark in an aggressive way since becoming a single parent, but it really looks like he hasn't at all been looking after Mark, who's now a teenager. In the situation with Elizabeth's parents in the principal's office, Terry furiously threatens to beat up Elizabeth father for putting his son in jail, and Mark must break it up.—T. Niven

Genre: Action   Drama