
Walter, 24, is a wrestler, competing for a spot on the national team when he learns of his sister's brutal death. He comes home to help his mother; he works out, takes a dead-end job, and goes to the trial of the accused murderer. He becomes friends with Linda, her husband murdered; she's raising a teen son, Clay, who's deaf. Walter gets Clay into wrestling. He accompanies Linda to events at a center where she works. He sees her at the courthouse. They wait for verdicts. Walt... (Full plot summary below)
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Walter, 24, is a wrestler, competing for a spot on the national team when he learns of his sister's brutal death. He comes home to help his mother; he works out, takes a dead-end job, and goes to the trial of the accused murderer. He becomes friends with Linda, her husband murdered; she's raising a teen son, Clay, who's deaf. Walter gets Clay into wrestling. He accompanies Linda to events at a center where she works. He sees her at the courthouse. They wait for verdicts. Walter's mother takes her daughter's things to a rummage sale. Clay has his father's pistol. How will grief express itself?
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| DVDTalk.comBrian OrndorfUltimately, the material is much too delicate and screams out for a precise concentration that's beyond the professionals gathered here. And let's be honest, the material also could've benefitted from 100% less chicken costumes. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottDespite its R rating, Personal Effects will not go down in history as the movie in which Ashton Kutcher boinks Michelle Pfeiffer |
| User Reviewkostas tThis was a very good movie. I liked it alot. Aston Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer had good acting in it. :) |
| User ReviewCrystal Cloved this movie....this movie truely made me feel what each character felt!!! |
| User ReviewSameer PGreat movie, the story is very intense. Kathy Bates, Michelle Pfeifer were very good as you would expect. As for Ashton Kutcher, I was pleasantly surprised with his performance. |
| User ReviewPatrick LThis is one film I saw and reviewed (previously on Flixster....all those words gone now)....it was a decent film, perhaps one of the few of Kutcher's that I've seen and liked at least a bit but mostly I saw this because of Michelle, who is one of my favorite actresses. Personal Effects stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates as a widow who has a deaf son, a wrestler and his mom who grieve the violent rape and death of their sister/daughter who has a young child. The young mom was found dead and nude and the accused killer is an unlikely sort. Pfeiffer and Kutcher meet at court and in grief counselling group and end up drawn together through their grief. The wrestler takes the widow's son on as a protege after helping him with bullies and convincing the bullied kid to give up a gun he pulled on one bully. Tragedy occurs when the murder trial of the accused killer ends with an acquital and the young boy witnesses a failed assassination of the accused by the wrestler and later goes to shoot the accused but the wrestler gets hit trying to save the man he now has learned is apparently innocent. The boy ends up in prison, the wrestler apparently recovers. 10/10 |
| User ReviewCrusader .Finally, a great role for Ashton and he did an excellent job playing the character in this film. I used to say that "Butterfly Effect" is his best acting role to date; however, this film equals (or possibly exceeds) that one. A lot of stuff he does is just fund, but this drama goes very deep, which I like. Excellent story and music! |
| User ReviewMonika KTotally suprising plot and what an ending! I knew that Kutcher could play not only silly and funny role but also very ambitious. In this movie he shows that he can really act. It's one of the best performance in his career. |
| User ReviewMoni KTotally suprising plot and what an ending! I knew that Kutcher could play not only silly and funny role but also very ambitious. In this movie he shows that he can really act. It's one of the best performance in his career. |
| User ReviewCriss Tthis movie to me had a great story to it. i have to say Ashton Kutcher and Michelle pfeiffer work great together in this movie |