The Woodman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison.

Plot

Bacon plays Dan Woodman, a convicted child molester returning home to Philadelphia after a 12-year stint in prison. Dan finds that his friends and family have abandoned him, with the exception of his brother-in-law, Carlos (Benjamin Bratt). He gets a job at a lumber mill, where he meets Vicki (Kyra Sedgwick), a love interest and one of the few women working at the mill. Dan receives frequent visits from a verbally abusive cop named Lucas (Mos Def), whose role is to make sure Dan is staying away from children. In the movie, he must deal with the temptations around him, including a nearby primary school and a young bird-watcher, who he realizes is being abused at home and who helps him understand the damage he has done in the past. He also comes to suspect that a man he has seen watching children near his apartment building is also a child molester.