Gawker's wondering whether the trailer for Conviction, about a Boston woman who put herself through college and law school to challenge her brother's conviction on murder charges, proves Hillary Swank is actually a good actress. I'm more interested in Sam Rockwell:
Not that it's news that dude's a good actor. But this looks like a potentially powerful portrait of how people have to change to survive in prison. You see Rockwell's hair change, the tattoos that bloom on his arms as the years pass in the trailer. But much more importantly, you see him withdraw, act out in the confines of his cell and then in the larger prison community. He's not a saint, but he's not a psychopath either. He's just a relatively decent man adapting to a profoundly unnatural environment, even as his sister insists that he retain unuseful hope of returning to the world that most of us live in. Her love, weighed against his survival.