Kevin Bacon's latest movie is called Loverboy, a strangely family film, but a family film with a difference.

The story of a doting, unstable mom suffocating her son with love, Bacon's second turn as a director includes flashbacks to the mother's own problematic childhood. The film is rated R and adapted from the Victoria Redel novel.

So it's tough, uncompromising and perhaps uncensored, is that anything we haven't come to expect with Bacon? The real surprise is in the cast.

Kyra Sedgwick (Wife) plays the mother, Sosie Bacon (Daughter) plays the daughter, Travis Bacon (Son), Robert Sedgwick (Kyra's brother) and Michael Bacon (Kevin's brother) composed the music. A real family movie indeed.

Bacon says it wasn't planned like that it just turned out that way. It certainly sounds an interesting tale, and with Bacon at the helm as well as acting there's no way I wouldn't want to see it. It's Bacon's intensity and his ability to play such overwhelming strong, complex and often quite dark characters that draws me to him, and he talks about this in his interview with KRT Wire:

"Sometimes darker material presents bigger challenges for the actor, because you're going to places that are difficult to go to...There's no doubt that at this point people are seeing me as someone who is in intense, dark kinds of things."

He also talked about if he should consider looking away from these dark roles and move his career in another direction, frankly I'd hate this to happen, although he is a great acting talent I've really taken to those darker roles.

"I am hoping to move away from this kind of bad-guy vibe," he explained, offering an example of classic Hollywood pigeonholing: "I was up for a movie recently, it was a character that throughout the whole movie you know that he's a good guy, he's romantic and upright and honorable - then at the very end you find out that he's a sociopath. But they didn't hire me because they said, `Well, if we cast Kevin Bacon, everyone's going to see it coming."

I remember that it was Stir of Echoes that pulled me to his darker performances, and that reminded me of his excellent turn in Sleepers. He went on a similar vein in Mystic River and The Woodsman. Excellent performances, and if he walked away from those fantastically suited darker roles I'd be worried we'd lose that talent in Hollywood mediocrity.

Still, would a break be as good as a rest?