The "mom" was not fit take care of anything but a raging trouser-snake. C Affleck is always tedious & in this he was a moron & a joke. That loser would have never had a decent girlfriend. Instead, he would have been chopped to bits by some gangbanger years before. I'll give Lehane a pass for the over-the-top plot. That is what authors of sensationalist fiction do. Most of the main cast was great. Direction OK.