A jilted homosexual, the morose host of a national AIDS-awareness radio show, transfers his emotions, at long distance, onto a terminally ill pedophilia victim and his adoptive mother, but then, despite speaking to him repeatedly on the telephone, he comes to doubt the boy's existence. The intriguing premise (from an Armistead Maupin tale) is better designed for the page than for the screen, where we can see the boy with our own eyes. And the cranking-up of suspense, when the New Yorker pursues his doubts all the way to rural Wisconsin, is unconvincing. With Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin, Sandra Oh; directed by Patrick Stettner. (2006) — Duncan Shepherd
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