Crossing Guard, The

The laserdisc features audio commentary by Penn, Morse, Huston, novelist David Rabe, production designer Michael Haller and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.

The Crossing Guard is the second film directed and written by actor-turned-filmmaker Sean Penn (The Indian Runner). The story is a heartwrenching, somber drama that delivers two different sides of a drunk driving accident. Freddy Gale (Jack Nicholson) has waited six agonizing years for the release of John Booth (David Morse), the drunk driver who killed his seven year-old daughter. During that time Gail lost his wife Mary (Anjelica Huston) to another man (Robbie Robertson) and let himself become a drunk while she decided to try to put her daughter’s death behind her, so she could better mother their two sons. Now Booth is out of jail and ready to move on with his life, until Freddy bumbles an attempt to kill him, then promising to return in three days to even the score. An outstanding, occasionally documentary-style presentation full of mood and atmosphere, The Crossing Guard offers an intense, emotionally charged look at the breakdown of a grieving father and remorse of a rehabilitated drunk driver.