What a waste of my time!!!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

With one of the most heart-breaking introductions, The Unsaid places audiences on a psychological carousel, with enigmas about human behaviour that provoke curiosity and perplexity. Watching this film a whole decade later since my first viewing, it was even more emotional than I previously comprehended. As I mentioned above, the story begins with a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. Michael Hunter and his wife Penny intend on going to their daughter's school performance; however, their son refuses to join them. He is showing clear signs of depression and is reluctant to converse with his family. Unable to penetrate their son's barrier of silence, the family travel without him. In a climactic moment, the family return home to find their son dead, having committed suicide. Several years later, therapist Barbara Lonigan enlists Michael's expertise with seventeen year old Thomas Caffey. Thomas is soon to be released from a home for troubled adolescents, pending his eighteenth birthday. The seemingly balanced teenager shows no signs of trauma, regardless of his brutal memory of his mother's murder.Barbara suspects that Thomas is not ready for release, despite his 'normal' appearance and persona. Tortured by nightmares and feelings of failure to save his son, Michael takes the task - Deciphering what really happened in Thomas' past is the crux of this intriguing psychological film. This plot will wrench at feelings you possess and other emotions you were unaware existed – I am not a father, but that initial scene successfully forced the power of paternity on me. Trevor Blumas who plays Michael's son, Kyle Hunter, emulates the body language, facial expressions and tone of a depressed individual in an unbelievably convincing act. There is a great amount of pain, sadness, realism, humanity and inhumanity throughout the movie. If there was ever a place where there are real complications, real grey, real conundrums in psychology, this storyline harbours them. There is no simplistic right or wrong, black or white, good or evil; just a set of horrific and profoundly sad events.The IMDb average rating currently stands at 6.5/10. This should definitely be higher.Review by Stephen Leslie France

I really liked this movie maybe because I have always been interested about psycology (and not working in that field though I have always wanted..). I have watched this movie twice (and that's a lot because normally I watch movies only once). Both times after watching this I felt that world isn't fair. I cried few times because world isn't fair.... So when you watch this movie be prepared to watch it with time. You really need to think about things.. I think that if you don't like this film you don't like these kind of films at all. But if you "like" this film you "like" film like The Heart is Deceitful about all Things. I really care about children and about their behauviour and it's really important for me to understand what they are feeling. This movie shows that how difficult and how important is to understand and listen that what they have / need to say.

Even though this movie was clearly made with a small budget, it looked very promising to me. I was almost certain that this would be such a movie with a disturbingly realistic subject, that goes right to and through your heart like a knife ... but it didn't. I'm not saying it was a bad movie, it just wasn't that good.The subject on itself isn't bad though. A young boy is kept in an institution because he saw his mom being murdered by his own father. Since then he hasn't shown much emotions and hasn't spoken about the incident. When Dr. Michael Hunter, a retired college professor and psychologist, examines the boy, he's convinced that they should keep him in the institution a bit longer because he isn't ready for the real world, that he might be a ticking time bomb. He starts working with the boy, in who he sees his own son who committed suicide a few years earlier, and gradually he is able to reveal the horrible truth...The acting in this movie isn't bad, but it wasn't great either. However, I guess you can't expect any better from a crew without many well-known names (Only Andy Garcia and Teri Polo I had heard of before seeing this movie, the rest of the cast was a complete mystery to me) and it has to be said, I've seen a lot worse in the past. The same can be said about the story which was OK, but not excellent. It was compelling, but somehow I missed something in it. Anyway, I'm already glad that it was a lot better than the average TV-movie that would deal with this subject. But if you want to see an excellent psychological thriller about this subject, than I suggest you watch "Primal Fear". That movie offers about the same story (murder, child abuse,...), but does it in a much better way. I give this movie a 6.5/10. It's worth a watch.

It's quite obvious that Andy Garcia, who also co-produced this film, gave his all in the lead role, and the result is an honest, committed, often moving performance. The rest of the cast is also good, and although you could find some faults in the direction, it's generally OK. What is far from OK in this movie is the predictable, conventional script. Not only do we know almost immediately that Kartheizer's character is a psycho, but pretty soon we know WHY he's a psycho, too. I spent most of the time trying to determine which movie this one rips off the most - it's either "Primal Fear" (1996) or just plain "Fear" (also 1996). Trivial observations: Andy Garcia bearded is really hard to take (thankfully he shaves the beard early on); Linda Cardellini looks like Monica Belucci's younger sister (that's a good thing). (**)