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  • Summary: Eric Komenko is a charming, attractive high school student with devout, domineering parents. Following an angry outburst from his mother upon her discovery of his promiscuity, Eric maliciously and violently murders both his mother and father. Years later, Lori Cranston, an attractive and audacious young girl who has silently suffered years of sexual abuse from her mother’s revolving door of boyfriends, becomes mesmerized by Eric’s story. Undeterred by Eric’s murderous impulses, Lori flees her mother’s house to find him. (Lionsgate) … Expand

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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Tenderness is a movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    Giving Mrs. Tiger Woods a run for her money as the most humiliated celebrity of the month, Russell Crowe accepts a third-banana role in the laughable weepie Tenderness.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    20
    Director John Polson's elliptical storytelling style quickly becomes an irritant.

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