Connor Cruise debuts in Seven Pounds, but where are Mum and Dad?!

I saw a trailer while waiting for that god awful movie Four Christmases (Vince Vaughn being Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon being Reese Witherspoon really should work, right?) for a new film with Will Smith called Seven Pounds. It was a good one, big, bold and so so serious. Blatent Oscar baiting, but I can overlook that because it did actually look quite good, even though I’m not entirely sure what the damn thing is about. Here’s the trailer, the very same one I saw, for you to make up your mind. 

So where am I going with this? Well the film marks the screen debut of one Connor Cruise, adopted son of Hollywood's former golden couple, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. Here he is, smiling away:

I never knew the lad existed, let alone that he is apparently a skilled actor. The problem is that when I, and most other people I'm guessing, think about Cruise/Kidman sprogs we only really think about Suri, Tom's baby with Katie Holmes, and Sunday Rose, Nicole's "miracle baby" with Keith Urban and forget about poor old Connor. I mean, how can he possible compete with a miracle baby??!!

Even though we, the stupid public, forget about Connor, you'd think that Kidman and Cruise would still have a place in their heart for their little boy, right? Apparently not, as both were absent from the LA premiere of Seven Pounds on Wednesday. Now if your son had landed a main part in a film, you'd go along to the premiere, right?  Consider as well that this is their son's first ever film, that Tom lives in the same city as the premiere and that both Tom and Nicole have gone to god knows how many of these things over the years, it's not like they were too intimidated to go along or anything like that. 

I agree with The Inquisitr, not bothering to turn up to your child's premiere is poor form and clearly shows favouritism amongst your children. Do you think a wrinkled Old Tom and Nicole would shun a premiere starring Suri or Sunday Rose? No way!

So why did they not bother turning up? Babble can't work it out, but I think I know the reason. I reckon they took a look at Seven Pounds' page on Rotten Tomatoes and read the reviews. Perhaps we shouldn't be so harsh on Tom and Nicole after seeing that!  

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