Product Details

• Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Leonor Varela, Miranda Bailey, Waylon Payne, Richard Riehle
• Directors: Paul Holahan
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001UGGVDI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,671 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Ron (Waylon Payne, Walk the Line) and Dina (Miranda Bailey, Lower Learning) - unexpectedly pregnant and broke - list their unborn child for adoption on the internet and hope for the best: someone wealthy and willing to pay up front. An easy plan; take the money and run. Enter Paul (Jeffrey Donovan, TV's Burn Notice) and Maria (Leonor Varela, Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story). Rich, desperate for a baby, and ready to play a twisted, sadistic game of their own...

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, November 18, 2009

By	leon lebovich "Mister" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This movie is about an irresponsible young couple, Dina (Miranda Bailey) and Ron (Waylon Payne) that live in their car with no means of support. When they find out they are knocked up, they see their unborn baby as a way to make money by selling it on the internet to a prospective couple...Paul (Jeffery Donavan) and Maria (Leonor Varella). They come together and things go well as until the baby's biological father can keep his true nature under control. He gets angry and slaps his pregnant girlfriend which makes the adoptive father question whether or not they are making the right choice with this adoption. It is from this point that things start beginning to take twists and turns. You may be able to predict how the movie is going to end, but the trip to the end is an enjoyable one. The actors deliver well enough and the plot has enough turns to keep people guessing. There's enough gore to keep the spatter crowd entertained, and some depth for those of us who like to look in to film a little more deeply. All in all, definitely worth your time.

3.0 out of 5 stars hindsight, July 4, 2009

By	Penny K. Butz "movie nut" (Edison, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The movie was interesting. Sort of like a"Twilight Zone" episide. I bought it to see Jeffrey Donovan's performance. He was great as always. Waylon Payne and Leonor Varela were also good,But Miranda Bailey seemed off. It is an interesting thriller and worth a look.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars People complained about Orphan and this got away scot-free? People are stupid., August 27, 2009

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Hindsight (Paul Holahan, 2008)

It never fails to amaze me what idiots some people are. You may remember a hue and cry a couple of months (as I write this) ago over the movie Orphan from all the usual suspects, organizing boycotts and such because of the movie's controversial portrayal of adoption. (None of the protestors, of course, ever actually saw the movie; they never do.) And yet there was, from the same braindead morons, a terrific vacuum surrounding Hindsight, considered by more than a few critics to be one of the best films of 2008 and (since it never got wide theatrical release) ranking high on IFC's list of must-see movies for Summer 2009, which makes Orphan's dysfunctionality look like it came straight from the set of Ozzie and Harriet. I find myself confused, to say the least. Perhaps even more confused than I find myself by those woefully misguided critics who seemed to have loved it so (not to mention whatever portion of the IFC staff had forgotten to eat their Wheaties before watching this half-baked mess).

Hindsight is the story of a broke, criminal trailer-trash couple, Dina (The Oh in Ohio's Miranda Bailey) and Ron (Walk the Line's Waylon Payne), who decide, when confronted with an unwanted pregnancy, to sell the baby over the Internet. They find Maria (Blade II's Leonor Varela) and Paul (Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan), who, they say, have gone through every legal channel without success, and are willing to barter in black market babies. Problem is, neither side of this equation is being quite square with the other, and the misunderstandings soon spiral out of control...

If that sounds like the plot of half the torture porn movies you've ever seen, but without any of the violence that lends those movies prurient interest, then you've hit the nail right on the head. It doesn't help that every plot synopsis of the movie you'll find gives away the big plot twist halfway through the film (I tried to dance around it as much as I could; most are far more explicit, some actually giving away both sides of the duplicity), which robs the film of any sort of suspense it might have held. (The movie's framing device, which also gives the movie its title, also robs it of much of the suspense.) This probably could have been an above-average psychological thriller given a couple more script rewrites, but what we actually get is as run-of-the-mill as they come. **