Published in Ciao
The Paperboy (1994), is a strange story of a paperboy who takes friendliness to the limit by adopting an unsuspecting mother and daughter. At first the paperboy seems friendly and then the mother played by Alexandra Paul begins to suspect that there is something wrong with this boy, she does an investigation and when she does the sinister side of this boy comes out.
main cast
Alexandra Paul – Melissa Thorpe
Marc Marut – Johnny McFarley
Brigid Tierney – Cammie Thorpe
William Katt – Brian
Frances Bay – Mrs. Rosemont
My thoughts even thought the film tries to show how this boy was neglected by his father and beaten by his mom when she was alive you just can’t get to like this kid. From the beginning if you are like me you feel that this boy is moving in on this family way too fast. He does not act normal in anyway shape or form. If I was supposed to like him in the beginning and feel sorry for him, it didn’t work. I couldn’t stand him.
The scene where he does what he does to the old lady who warns Melissa that this boy is evil is expertly done, I can’t say what happened as it really would give away too much of the story but let me just tell you that you are deliberately led down a certain path and what you think has happened has not. In the end of the movie the same thing occurs and you are so happy with the outcome.
In my opinion this is definitely a movie to see.
