Top billed cast

1. 

   Ely Solan

   Jon

2. 

   Leon Hughes

   Robert

3. 

   Will O'Connell

   Detective Dale

4. 

   David Ryan

   Detective Scott

5. 

   Tara Breathnach

   Susan Venables

6. 

   Morgan C. Jones

   Detective Roberts

7. 

   Brian Fortune

   Detective Jacobs

8. 

   Kathy Monahan

   Ann Thompson

9. 

   Killian Sheridan

   Neil Venables

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-02-14

There are two really impressive and emotionally-charged performances from Ely Solan and Leon Hughes here but the rest of the feature seems uncomfortably prurient. It was huge news in the UK in 1993 when toddler James Bulger was abducted and murdered by two older children, so this dramatisation is bound to touch nerves as it uses selected transcripts from their police interviews to map out just what happened on that day. These events took place long before there was CCTV everywhere so piecing things together requires not just their increasingly panic-stricken and upsetting statements, but also ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• child abuse
• kidnapping
• based on true story
• murder
• criminal investigation
• short film