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I haven't seen the movie, but I believe Bacon plays a pedophile who is just released from jail and is trying to put his life back together. I don't think he actually molests children on screen. Buy hey, I could be wrong. Let me go see what IMDB has to say about it...Back..I don't know, it's hard to tell from the reviews and description if it's just about one man's struggle to change or if it's about the crime itself.

This blurb is pretty informative:

. A convicted child molester returns home after a dozen years in prison and tries to go straight. If this has a familiar ring, that may be because the British drama The Mark (1961) explored the same subject (its lead actor, Stuart Whitman, received an Oscar nomination). The differences between the two movies are telling: the earlier one concentrated on the man's therapy and encouraged compassionate understanding, while this one seems less interested in psychology than in challenging the audience's sense of its own tolerance. (First-time director Nicole Kassell, who collaborated with Steven Fechter on this adaptation of his play, also seems intermittently influenced by Mystic River, which proves distracting.) Kevin Bacon is good as the pedophile, but as written his character is mainly a cipher; edgier performances comes from Kyra Sedgwick (Bacon's real-life spouse) as the man's girlfriend and Mos Def as a cop keeping an eye on him. R, 87 min. - Chicago Reader

What is the point, all psych studies have found that pedophiles are not treatable. Is Hollywood trying to say that are sort of like alcoholics. That may be even worse.