a young prep school teen ( lukas haas and quite good ) get involve with a mysterious young woman ( winona ryder and who doesn not register or emote . not one of her good performance ) who have a secret she be hide . during the film snippet of a past acquaintance ( skeet ulrich ) may answer that very secret . chris cooper have a thankless and clichéd role a profane and short fuse father of haas . jessica harper have the thankless role a haas mother and the typical hush hush wife afraid of her hot tempered husband . john c reilly also have a minor role a a kindly officer try to locate ryder over the whereabouts of baseball star ulrich . the oh so big mystery isn not anything to write home about and ryder be merely a confused dame . the suppose firework between haas and ryder be non existent and the film be really unfocused . we get a lot of story on haas life in a school for rich annoy kid and with little chemistry between the lead ( not to mention a plot which doesn not provide u much in why either would prefer to have such a relationship ) and there be very little to get excite about . i would say see the film for haas performance and because the rest of this mediocre effort isn not worth your time .