Neglected is a race-against-time thriller starring Josh Duhamel as a detective on his last day before retirement who learns a serial killer has buried his son alive. The premise is pure genre adrenaline: solve three murders, find the location, beat the clock. The Leans Progressive label is mild and driven mainly by framing. The film treats the violence as a product of neglect in a systemic sense, pointing toward institutional failures rather than individual evil as the root cause. Pulling the other way, the story centers a father's desperate drive to save his biological child, a traditionally coded emotional core. The result is a slight progressive lean, not a cultural statement.