Product Details

• Actors: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Corin Nemec, Leland Orser, Evan Parke, Brian Jensen
• Directors: John Badham
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 8, 2002
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006G8IO
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #112,042 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
An ex-cop discovers that her own brother is a serial killer that she failed to capture years earlier. Brother's Keeper will keep you guessing until the bitter end. A tense thriller mixing elements of Silence of The Lambs, Seven and "CSI". Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, The Firm, Mickey Blue Eyes, Waterworld) Evan Dexter Parke (Planet of the Apes, The Replacements, Cider House Rules) Leland Orser (Pearl Harbor, The Bone Collector, Saving Private Ryan) Corin Nemec (TV's "Parker Lewis", "Stargate SG-1")

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "a brother is born for adversity", May 31, 2003

By	Maureen Ogorman "leneker" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Brother's Keeper [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Stunningly bad drama that I suggest you do not bother to waste your time with.

Lucinda Pond had overcome an abusive childhood with her single parent father. She became a successful Police officer, and used no small amount of her time protecting her baby brother Ellis from the repercussions of his petty crime, a habit developed from her taking care of him during their childhood.

Lucinda's world came apart when she led a "ruby-ridge" style raid that leads to the death of an innocent man rather than the serial killer she was trying to capture. She leaves the force, takes up drinking, and abandons her husband and child.

Almost four years later some one is copycatting those murders and Lucinda is brought back onto the force against her will to help track down the killer. In no time it all she figures out that it is her wayward Brother, Ellis. She also realizes that this is another of the many games and puzzles that the two siblings shared growing up. He leaves her clues and she is to use their common history to decipher them and hunt him down. Ellis's goal is to "free" her from having to protect him by killing so very many people that Lucinda will be forced to kill him. A plan she does not intend to follow through on.

As the bodies and the clues mount, Lucida is forced into a confrontation with Ellis and a choice that only she can make.

Now, I like movies about siblings who are forced into murderous situations with each other as much as the next person, BUT this movie was just a waste of time.
There was NO suspense. There was no emotional involvement with any of the characters and honestly you could pretty much see exactly where everything was heading from about 15 minutes into the movie.

My only regret is that I didn't have enough sense to turn the VCR off at that moment and just take the tape back. My advice to you is to not even bother to get the tape in the first place.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Blame it on Dad..., December 31, 2002

By	trebe - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Brother's Keeper is a made for cable TV production for the USA Network. Jeanne Tripplehorn is Lucinda Pond, a former member of the Portland Police, with a number of personal issues. An incident where an innocent man is killed by mistake, causes her leave the force. But she is drawn back to help in an investigation of a series of brutal murders, in which her brother is the prime suspect.

Tripplehorn is believable, as a ragged, close to burned out cop, forced back to reality by the need to bring her brother Ellis (Corin Nemec) to justice. The build up of Ellis, as a criminal mastermind, is a bit overdone, though there is no doubt that he is capable of some extremely gruesome acts. The violence is toned down for TV, and the mayhem is hardly shown, only the grim results. All this carnage, is the result of a troubled childhood, and an abusive father. Very convenient.

Using her insight, Detective Pond is convinced that her brother is "trying to tell her something" with his acts. She must operate with a FBI agent (Evan Dexter Parke) who is not quite convinced she belongs on the investigative team. He becomes her partner for a showdown in the woods with Ellis.

Veteran director, John Badham (Point of No Return) handles matters capably. Brother's Keeper does not have a lot of tension or suspense, and it saves what little action there is until the end. The cost may be a little steep, for a TV type thriller that does not rise very far above average.