Clown suit

Amber Rose

(2010)

A squirmily moving and disturbingly sympathetic look at child molesters. This is a low-low budget indy, and as such it exhibits some technical and performative clumsiness, but at its best it is gripping and complex, treating as human beings with human suffering a class generally rendered--in movies and in life--as irredeemable monsters. A genuinely remarkable performance by Steven M. Keen as an ex-con left brain damaged by a prison attack. No answers here, but a lot of really tough questions.

Full disclosure: the writer-director Mike Trippiedi is a friend, and I also know his stepdaughter, Jennifer Bechtel, who appears as a sanctimonious neighbor, pretty well.