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A Review: The Night Listener
Like The Sixth Sense, this is a movie you will want to see more than once to see what clues you missed the first time around.
The Night Listener is an eerie thriller based on true events. It received two thumbs up by Richard Roeper and Jay Leno. I was expecting a scarier movie, but it is more of a drama and a lesson of how those of us with a bit heart can be pulled into strange situations where we discover that people really do take what people say at face value. This is the best movie I have seen Robin Williams in in a long time.
Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), a celebrated writer and alte-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother (Toni Collette). When troubling questions arise about the boy's identity, however, Noone finds himself drawn intoa widening mystery that hides a deadly secret!
There are some disturbing sexual scenes in this movie that relate to the young listener. There is also another story going on with Gabriel Noone as he is in the ending stages of an 8 year old homosexual relationship.
