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.
The Woodsman has generally received positive reviews.
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The Woodsman was released in 2004 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 606 reviews, giving The Woodsman (2004) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 78% and users giving an average score of 77%.
With a score of 73%, The Woodsman is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2004, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2004 with similar scores include films like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Dawn of the Dead and Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper.
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