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Before and After

5.9/10
TMDB222 votes
1996Original: English108 min

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cast: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon, Alfred Molina

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THE STORY & THE PEOPLE

About Before and After

A murder. A suspect. A shadow of a doubt.

Before and After (1996) is a film in the crime, drama, mystery genres. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. The cast includes Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon.

Released
1996-02-23
Original language
English
Runtime
108 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures
Writers
Ted Tally

Before and After cast & characters

Audience reviews

5.9/10 from 222 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

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TMDB member review

Edward Furlong "Jacob" puts in a reasonable effort here, but otherwise this is a really unremarkable drama that muddles along despite rather than because of the two stars at the top of the bill. When a young girl is murdered, he is the suspect and so dad "Liam Neeson" immediately takes steps to help his son by destroying what looks like damning evidence. The ensuing court case pushes the usual array of buttons as the…

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Edward Furlong "Jacob" puts in a reasonable effort here, but otherwise this is a really unremarkable drama that muddles along despite rather than because of the two stars at the top of the bill. When a young girl is murdered, he is the suspect and so dad "Liam Neeson" immediately takes steps to help his son by destroying what looks like damning evidence. The ensuing court case pushes the usual array of buttons as the intra-familial relationships between him, his father, mother (Meryl Streep) and sister "Judith" (Julia Weldon) are strained. Alfred Molina is actually quite plausible as the win-at-all-costs lawyer "Demeris" and we plod along, glacially, to a ending about which I couldn't actually care. It's not a terrible film, all of the cast deliver what is asked of them, but the narrative meanders all over the shop all too often; the dialogue and faux-emotional scenes are flat and the ending just re-iterated a question that so many of these pointless dramas are predicated on... Why not just go to the police in the first place and rely on them to do their jobs properly?

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Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Who stars in Before and After?

Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon, Alfred Molina, Daniel von Bargen. See the cast cards above for character names.

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