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Review

Dreyfuss stars as a noted psychiatrist who battles his own demons while helping a child come to terms with his. Faulkner plays a ten-year-old autistic youth who is the sole witness to the murder of his parents. Dreyfuss is reluctantly called into the investigation to try to reach the boy, made more difficult by the child's silence, an interfering doctor (Lithgow) and an impatient sheriff (Walsh). Beresford's subtle direction creates a suspenseful mood throughout, and though Silent Fall may by too clinical at times, it nonetheless is an engaging psychological mystery.