Eighteen-year-old Jamal Connor has been unaccounted for the past eight hours — far short of the 48 required for a missing-person report to be filed. But his agitated mother, Kendra , is frantically pacing a Miami police station’s waiting room at 4 a.m. nonetheless, insisting that the greenhorn on night duty, Larkin , “do something.” She says it’s completely out of character for prep school-educated, West Point-bound Jamal to pull a vanishing act.
Unfolding in real time within the single interior location, “American Son” begins with Kendra in a state of high agitation, and the emotional flare-ups only escalate from there. She’s alternately belligerent, tearful and defensive. For his part, Scott is an alpha male accustomed to getting what he wants, and whose high expectations as well as recent abandonment may have fueled whatever trouble Jamal has gotten into.
While the characters are in an understandably tense situation, Demos-Brown lays on the fireworks pretty thick, and the normally fine Washington’s emotional arpeggios begin to wear. Pasquale is less grating if also asked to go from zero to 10 too often, while the other thesps are solid.
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