Plot: Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: Ray, an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; Kate, a compliant wife and Jimmy, a 19-year-old son, who have an incestuous relationship at the insistence of the dad; and, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. Ray harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. Jimmy sleeps out in the shed, has suspicions, but little comes out until Doris, a Yankee woman of middle age comes to town looking for a dead private eye. And why does dad keep calling Jimmy, "little boy blue"?
Alternative Plot: Jimmy (Ryan Phillippe) would do anything to protect his mother (Nastassja Kinski) and two younger brothers from his abusive father, Ray (John Savage), a veteran who suffers from PTSD. A talented baseball player with dreams of escaping his small Texas town, Jimmy is terrified of leaving Ray alone with the family. When the police start questioning Ray about a local murder, Jimmy finds that keeping Ray in check may be harder than he initially thought.
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