After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

Kevin Bacon
as Walter

David Alan Grier
as Bob

Kyra Sedgwick
as Vicki

Eve
as Mary-Kay

Benjamin Bratt
as Carlos

Carlos Leon
as Pedro

Michael Shannon
as Rosen

Nicole Gibson
as Girl with Red Ball

Kevin Rice
as Candy

Yasiin Bey
as Sgt. Lucas
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_**Great psychological study**_ Released in 2004, "The Woodsman" tells the story of Walter (Kevin Bacon) who's trying to make a life for himself in Philadelphia after spending 12 years in prison due to his abnormal predilection for 10-12 year-old girls. When news gets out of why he was in prison ...