Eric Poole, who at 18, is released from jail having served his sentence for the murder of a young girl. Russell Crowe plays the hard-bitten detective who put him away and who is sure that Poole is a potential serial killer who will reoffend. He makes it his mission to keep Poole under surveillance as he sets off on a seemingly innocent road trip up-state. But all is not as it seems as Poole soon finds himself on the run with a young girl who has become obsessed with him and may or may not have been witness to the first murder.
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5 May 1969, Berlin, Germany
December 31, 1960 in New Jersey, USA
1989, Canada
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
28 December 1972, Louisiana, USA
13 December 1950, Toledo, Ohio, USA
25 May 1967, Tacoma, Washington, USA
7 April 1964, Wellington, New Zealand
7 January 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 January 1978, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
20 July 1976, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
April 25, 2010
The picture is crowded with captivating tones and contemplation, navigating a tricky tale of murder, perversion, and obsession with a fine edge of suspense and an interesting take on the human condition.
December 11, 2009
Crowe, who spends the movie trudging along ... and waxing lyrical about pain and pleasure, must be hoping no one sees this mawkish blunder. He will probably get his wish.
January 02, 2016
Based on less ambiguous YA novel , the teens drive film and portrayals of damaged youth are tense and sympathetic, though their behavior veers too sharply to pathological.
December 11, 2009
Crowe's lumbering presence is a relief from all the gothic heaviness, but director John Polson's elliptical storytelling style quickly becomes an irritant.
June 22, 2011
An arty psychological thriller that never catches fire as either a serial killer flick or character study.
May 01, 2009
It's hard to understand what keeps these characters moving, and without true indie grit or the runaway tension that would otherwise satisfy the multiplex, Tenderness drops somewhere in-between...and that is mostly a disappointing nowhere.
May 01, 2009
Cormier himself called Tenderness a tough book written in "a minor key" and perhaps Polson was inspired by the description. But if so, he doesn't come close.
May 01, 2009
Since moving to Hollywood, Australian director John Polson has become a very competent filmmaker. I hope he finds better scripts for his future projects.
May 01, 2009
Polson maintains an unsettling tension throughout the narrative, building his slow-burn thriller to a climax that deliberately runs counter to the in-your-face genre principles of which he proved such a master with his first two thriller outings.
May 01, 2009
It does have a few plot contrivances, but the tension is skilfully built and the cast is uniformly excellent.
December 11, 2009
A movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits.
December 31, 2010
Russell Crowe stumbles through lifeless thriller.
