Article: BACON, WIFE EXPLAIN FILM TO OWN KIDS.(Living)

Byline: David Germain Associated Press

Kevin Bacon wants you to know the same thing he told his kids: No children were harmed during the making of his latest film.

In "The Woodsman," Bacon gives a career performance as the most reviled of sex offenders, a child molester coming off 12 years in prison for abusing young girls. Filled with self-loathing, his character, Walter, makes an honorable attempt to go straight but is tormented by temptation, shunned by his family and abhorred by co-workers who discover his past.

Bacon and his wife, co-star Kyra Sedgwick, sat down to discuss the film's difficult themes with their 15-year-old son and ...

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