Damian
Lewis - William Keane
Amy Ryan - Lynn Bedik
Abigail Breslin - Kyra Bedik
American independent filmmaker Lodge
Kerrigan returned after a six-year hiatus with this formally challenging
tale of a disheveled man desperately searching New York City for
his young daughter. Keane takes its name from its central character,
a middle-aged man (Damien Lewis) who wanders Port Authority with
a seemingly tenuous grasp of his sanity, muttering to himself and
causing altercations with passers-by. He claims to have lost his
daughter at a bus station, and consistently pleads for assistance
from indifferent authority figures. When he's not roaming the streets,
he uses his meager savings to rent out a room nightly in a cheap
hotel; there, he meets Lynn (Amy Ryan), a single mother with a daughter,
Kyra (Abigail Breslin), almost the same age as Keane's missing child.
As he grows closer to Lynn and Kyra, he starts to see the young
girl as instrumental in deciphering his own loss. Keane premiered
at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival before securing a 2005 theatrical
release.
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