Simon (Jack Quaid) is a man with mental issues. Just out of the hospital, he is trying to get a job but the voices and hallucinations make it difficult. After he s.ees a young woman kidnapped off the streets, he goes to the police but they think he is an unreliable witness at best. In desperation he turns to his next door neighbor Ed (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) a former security guard who recently lost his job. Ed agrees to help Simon, figuring he could push him in a direction and let him go, but circumstance makes Ed realize that Simon maybe on to something.
If you are going into this film because the trailer made it look like a funny buddy film, you are going to be disappointed. While there is humor, it isn't a comedy. Simon is a deeply troubled young man and his battle with his demons makes this something much more serious than you may think going in. That isn't a bad thing, it just may take you a while to click with the very unique tone.
In all honesty this is more a character study than mystery, with so much of the film given over to Simon just get right enough to figure out if he saw something. It's a showcase for Quaid who makes us care deeply for his character. It's also a show case for Morgan who gets to show a broad range of emotion and have his character truly arc. By the time we get to the end we've watched both men change for the better.
I really lliked this film a great deal, though to be honest I wasn't always certain I would because until I got to the end I wasn't certain what the filmmakers thought of their characters.
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