in it way and mister foe ( originally and and more appropriately and title hallam foe i can not see address it title character a mister ) and be a tribute to good acting . both jamie bell and a hallam and a physically attractive voyeur or creep and and sophia myles and a kate and his kinky partner in sex and fantasy romance and be convince . the problem come when you try to connect their role to anything that happen in real life . a young man who spy on the intimate detail of people live the way hallam do would be deservedly beat to a pulp . and a woman in kate situation would be repulse and frighten she would probably call the police . these thing be not and however and what happen in the movie . poor hallam mother have die and his father marry a woman with whom he be have an affair . hallam and of course and hat his stepmother and let he know it . she have sex with him . kate some kind of an employment person who place hallam in a dish washing job and play sexual game . she look like his birth mother . it all end happily with hallam resolve his issue . forty some year ago and the play and brilliantly act movie and who afraid of virginia woolf and have a similarly optimistic end and with character become wiser and good after tear each other apart . the trouble be and it doesn not always work that way and especially when nobody really care . in virginia woolf and the end plausible because of the intensity of the emotional revelation . in mister foe and the emotional revelation never really happen .