Drawing from the parent role; For 'Death Sentence,' Kevin Bacon keyed into his real life as a parent, but Kelly Preston couldn't think about her kids being in harm's way.

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  • Author(s): By:Susan King
  • Source:
    Los Angeles Times (CA), August 31, 2007 Calendar Home Edition, 3pp
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    • Abstract:
      In the action-thriller "Death Sentence," which opens today, Kevin Bacon and Kelly Preston play the parents of a high-school student who is murdered in a brutal gang shooting. Both performers are parents of teenagers but made different choices about using that fact in their work. Bacon, who is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick and is the father of 18-year-old Travis and 15-year-old Sosie, used his family as his emotional inspiration...