In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

With one of the most heart-breaking introductions, The Unsaid places audiences on a psychological carousel, with enigmas about human behaviour that provoke curiosity and perplexity. Watching this film a whole decade later since my first viewing, it was even more emotional than I previously comprehended. As I mentioned above, the story begins with a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. Michael Hunter and his wife Penny intend on going to their daughter's school performance; however, their son refuses to join them. He is showing clear signs of depression and is reluctant to converse with his family. Unable to penetrate their son's barrier of silence, the family travel without him. In a climactic moment, the family return home to find their son dead, having committed suicide. Several years later, therapist Barbara Lonigan enlists Michael's expertise with seventeen year old Thomas Caffey. Thomas is soon to be released from a home for troubled adolescents, pending his eighteenth birthday. The seemingly balanced teenager shows no signs of trauma, regardless of his brutal memory of his mother's murder.Barbara suspects that Thomas is not ready for release, despite his 'normal' appearance and persona. Tortured by nightmares and feelings of failure to save his son, Michael takes the task - Deciphering what really happened in Thomas' past is the crux of this intriguing psychological film. This plot will wrench at feelings you possess and other emotions you were unaware existed – I am not a father, but that initial scene successfully forced the power of paternity on me. Trevor Blumas who plays Michael's son, Kyle Hunter, emulates the body language, facial expressions and tone of a depressed individual in an unbelievably convincing act. There is a great amount of pain, sadness, realism, humanity and inhumanity throughout the movie. If there was ever a place where there are real complications, real grey, real conundrums in psychology, this storyline harbours them. There is no simplistic right or wrong, black or white, good or evil; just a set of horrific and profoundly sad events.The IMDb average rating currently stands at 6.5/10. This should definitely be higher.Review by Stephen Leslie France

THE UNSAID was made in 2001, was released direct to DVD in 2003.After reading the synopsis & that Andy Garcia besides starring was also the executive producer,I was planning to criticise the fact it had no theatrical release in the USA.After viewing this tonight,it is easy to see why it did not have a theatrical run in US theatres.The movie seems more like made Lifetime TV. Nearly all concerned have extensive television credits, except for Andy Garcia.Tom Mcloughlin directed nicely, BUT the story & screenplay did him & the film in.It starts off interestingly for about the first half,seems like it might be OK.THEN predictability & boredom sets in. The ending is almost laughable.This is a pity tho, as cast does very good work. Andy Garcia gives an excellent performance.Vincent Kartheiser was only 21 when he made this & definitely has talent. I have not seen any of his many TV roles,I hope he makes other films & becomes a major player. I do not know any of the actresses in this drama,BUT they all are quite good.The production credits are quite good.If the script was better it would have been a much better film.Take a chance you may like it better than I.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 73 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)

A leading psychiatrist has his world turned upside down by a tragic family event. He shuns patients, until being drawn back by a young man who witnessed his father kill his mother, but seems strangely unaffected by the event.A great script that respects the audience, leaving a lot of information off-screen. When the story moves forward a few years and Garcia and his wife have separated, we fill in the blanks automatically and never have to be told why it happened. Tommy turns up with a car, and we know fine well how he got it, some despicable act cleverly left to our imaginations. Tommy is astoundingly, creepily normal given his circumstances, until his psychosis explodes suddenly. After that he tries in vain to get it back in the box. Garcia has never been better, every inch the grief-stricken father, his expressions nuanced and painful. He handles his 'revelation' in a prison scene near the end with aplomb.The one downside is a maudlin, overbearing score that draws too much attention to itself.This is a film that deserves to be better known. Thrillers with this kind of plot seldom have such multi-layered characters, or believable families and settings. An intelligent, rewarding film that I look forward to watching again.

I really enjoyed THE UNSAID a lot due especially to its psychological edge. I think the actors did a great job "becoming" the characters, especially Trevor Blumas who played the son and Vincent Karthieser who played Tommy. Both of them were able to seem so different and also seem so close to being the same simultaneously--which helps complicate matters for Garcia's character.In the plot, however, I was a tad disappointed with the writers because the story line seemed to jump around a lot in an extremely unorganized fashion which got a little annoying.*A FEW SPOILERS AHEAD*I read some comments that have related the sexual abuse of Michael Hunter's son by his psychiatrist with homosexuality, and while I find it an interesting point of view that were Hunter's son in a relationship with an older woman would he have seem less disturbed by it, I can't help but think that it wasn't really what the movie was getting at.My reasons for that assumption is taking into account the relationship b/w the man and Hunter's son and the woman and Tommy. The man was Kyle's psychiatrist and the woman was Tommy's mother. And I think the roles both those characters play to the boys is something that seems to be overlooked. I think the movie is really focusing on the fact that both of the adults were in roles of authority, which means they took advantage of the trust and level of dependence both Kyle and Tommy had between them. And looking at it from that point of view I think Michael Hunter's feelings of disturbance are justified.*SPOILERS ENDED*