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Crimes of the Past (2010)
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Direction: Garrett Bennett
Cast: David Rasche, Elisabeth Röhm, Eric Roberts

After Tommy Sparrow is severely wounded in a covert CIA operation, he finally comes in from the cold – to retirement. His estranged daughter Josephine is battling both her own destructive nature and the damage done by the disappearance of her father. Tommy carries his scars both inside and out – and while his cold war operations never seem far behind, his journey home will surpass any mission he ran with the Agency – because reuniting with Josephine and becoming her father may cost him his life.


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Movie Review:


A spy unwittingly puts himself and his family in danger as he tries to reconnect with the child he left behind in this independent drama from director Garrett Bennett. In the early 1980s, Thomas Sparrow (David Rasche) was an operative with the CIA whose work often kept him away from his wife and young daughter. During a secret money-drop operation in Germany, things went awry and Sparrow was seriously hurt while the cash went missing. When Sparrow returned home, he learned his wife had been having an affair with another man, leading to an ugly altercation that terrified his daughter Josephine. Sparrow's wife banished him from the house, and with a new assignment, he literally disappeared from the lives of his wife and child. Twenty-five years later, Sparrow has retired from intelligence, and he travels to Seattle where Josephine (Elisabeth Rohm), now in her mid-thirties, is living. Observing his daughter from a distance, Sparrow sees that growing up without a father had taken a toll on her; she's a single mother with a drinking problem who is clearly unhappy with her life, and Sparrow tries to reintegrate himself into her life and help repair the damage he's done. But Sparrow's years with the CIA still follow him, and he's become the target of Russian mobsters who are convinced he knows where the fortune he lost years ago can be found.
Also starring Eric Roberts, but also David Rasch, who built up a generation of goodwill. Rasch plays a CIA operative with the very Graham Greene-ish name of “Sparrow” who wishes to fly from his undercover existence and live in the “real” world where he has utterly nothing to live for. Besides that, he’s bitter about the fact that decades earlier — on an day he promised his young daughter he would be right back and not stay away so long — he’s caught in a botched operation with the KGB and left mutilated and presumed dead. Needless to say, he never keeps his date with his daughter. Flash-forward 26 years and the daughter, played by a very earnest Elisabeth Rohm, is a loser in her own right — a divorced, AA-failing absent mother who pines for a relationship with anyone…except dear old dad.

But Sparrow’s resurfacing also draws attention to his identity, and a grudge-bearing KGB exploits the father-daughter relationship to lure Sparrow into a place where they can finish him off.

It sounds better than it plays — oh wait, right, Eric Roberts. Roberts pops up now and again Sparrow’s former-CIA buddy who counsels him on how to live among civilians. This inspires Sparrow to use his espionage skills to study his daughter and see how he might worm his way into her crumbling life.
It sounds better than it plays as the black-and-white flashbacks shuffle get confused with the deliberately paced spy scenes, thereby diluting any drama or danger that you might expect to develop. On the other hand, Rohm uses her experienced supporting cast to turn in a really touching portrait.