Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Also suspected of being a paedophile, he is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicions and hostility to be ignited.

• Icon Entertainment International
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Mel Gibson
• Nick Stahl
• Margaret Whitton
• Fay Masterson
• Gaby Hoffmann
• Geoffrey Lewis
• Richard Masur
• Michael DeLuise