Reservation RoadElle performs a routine role (by her high standards) as a daughter of a family whose son is killed in a car accident. The thriller has ingredients for more than it ends up delivering.
Elle has a simple, smallish role as Emma, the sweet daughter of the Learner
family in this moody drama/thriller. Ethan Learner, his wife and two
children are taking a break at a gas station, when a car hits the son and
immediately kills him. The driver, Dwight Arno, hesitates, but ends up not
stopping.
The police has little in way of clues, and makes no progress with the case.
Ethan, unable to accept the events, starts his own obsessive
investigations. Meanwhile, Dwight is agonized by guilt and self-doubt, but
doesn't turn himself in so as not to lose joint custody of his son.
 The story is potent, but is not presented in the most interesting manner.
It's hard to care strongly of the characters, while the thriller aspect is
quite on the slim side.
Elle has the common role of being a beautiful child who cries when his
brother dies and when her parents argue, and is otherwise lovable. Even the
bedtime scene is included. Elle does her part in an expert manner, but
there just isn't much to the role.
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