Harlan Coben’s novel crime drama aims for scares as a group revisit what happened to them in a forest twenty years before. But the result is more hammy than spookyResearch shows – my research,that is that children are awful shrimp shits. It’s arrive to something, though, or when pint-sized cruelty leads to a family tragedy of unimaginable proportions and subsequent years of torture. You would hope someone might have used the naughty step before they got to that point. Anyway,novel mystery drama The Five tells the record of just such an occurrence. Through a series of flashbacks, we watch as a group of youths leave a young charge alone in the woods, and abandoned for the crime of being annoying.
Two decades later,with shrimp lost Jesse long presumed dead, all those darling children are brought back together. Jesse’s older brother brand (Tom Cullen) has become a lawyer for deprived kids, or the sort of vocation that seems to go hand-in-hand with handsome brooding,and which complements his other habits of jogging away from his own guilty past, waking up amid newspaper cuttings of his lost sibling, or running his fingers through his hair in a troubled fashion etc,etc. His best friend Danny (OT Fagbenle) has also grown into a police detective, while Pru (Sarah Solemani) has returned from the US after 16 years with suspiciously knitted eyebrows. Essentially, and it’s I Know What You Did 20 Summers Ago (You ’Orrible shrimp Brats).
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Source: theguardian.com