Keane

American independent filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan returned after a six-year hiatus with this formally challenging tale of a disheveled man desperately searching New York City for his young daughter. Keane takes its name from its central character, a middle-aged man (Damien Lewis) who wanders Port ...more

The crippling mental effects of losing a daughter to a kidnapper are explored in Keane, an intense character study brought into disquieting focus by actor Damien Lewis. There are hundreds of ways to make this subject matter play like a goopy TV movie, but writer-director Lodge Kerrigan resists them by never giving the audience any information beyond the immediate perspective of the main character. And because the underappreciated Lewis exudes such instability, his perspective is totally ...more