A British family lives in a real tragedy when her young boy is abused by a famous Hollywood filmmaker - now, the family is suffering a shocking decision when the director offers them a month's salary for their silence. Things turn out to be a bad course, where the family accepts that choice that puts them in the circle of criticism.
Dark Money isn't an emotional thriller that misses the mark. It's just a stupid idea, made worse by some clumsy dialogue and characters who don't behave like actual human beings.
[Dark Money] speaks eloquently about the abuse of children by the powerful, how persistent the phenomenon is and how uneven the balance of power between abuser and abused is- and will probably always be, given that so much of it is about money.
It is the simple horror of the idea - of the existence - of child abuse that does the heavy lifting, with the characters not yet fine-grained enough for us to feel their personal agony and loss.
