Frailty (2002)
Directed by Bill Paxton
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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This is the first time Peter is being played by a real-life boy, a fact much hyped by the filmmakers, and 12-year-old Sumpter ( Frailty ) does his best to live up to the expectations.
The live action contributes to the new focus; Peter Pan is played by Jeremy Sumpter , who was so effective in Bill Paxton's " Frailty ," and Wendy Darling is played by Rachel Hurd-Wood , who was selected at an open casting call and is delightful in her first role.
Now, to you and me, soft and pretty Jeremy Sumpter ( Frailty ), who plays Peter, may not be all that sexually dangerous, but give him a chance: he's only 13 or whatever.
It must have been a pickle to find the right Pan, but while Jeremy Sumpter's American accent is a little irksome, his performance here is otherwise just as good as his turn in Bill Paxton's directorial debut Frailty.
In this new rendition of the classic fairytale Jeremy Sumpter (the younger brother in 2002's "Frailty") is Peter Pan, who spies on Wendy Darling (Rachel Hurd-Wood) and loves to listen to her stories as much as her brothers, John (Harry Newell) and Michael (Freddie Popplewell).
Jeremy Sumpter (Frailty) is a playful and arrogant Peter.
Determined to find her, Brendan consults his friend, The Brain (Matt O'Leary, "Frailty," "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over"), and the two form a plan that will find Brendan working under a tentative truce with the 'law,' Assistant Vice Principal Gary Trueman (Richard "Shaft" Roundtree).
What was the tale of the Lutz family, who moved into a deal-of-the-century home only to find that it's pervaded by evil spirits, now finds patriarch George (a convincingly charismatic-to-psychopathic Ryan Reynolds) being possessed not by the devil but by Bill Paxton in "Frailty."
Frankly (and shockingly), Bill Paxton's Frailty , with similar intentions but a meaner streak, did it all so much better.-Walter…