Painfully pretentious coming-of-age drama about the usual
thing; a sheltered, idealistic, troubled, sensitive upper-middle-class boy
trying to come to terms with the terrible hypocrisies of the adult world with
the help of quirky eccentrics like psychiatrist Lucy Liu and grandma Ellen
Burstyn, the latter of whom is just bursting with convenient and inspiring
homespun homilies. It’s one of many
failed attempts to do the whole Ordinary
People-American Beauty-thing, only exacerbated by the unfortunate
performance, or direction, of lead Toby Regbo, who comes off very badly, though
whether it’s his own fault or that of elderly Italian director Faenza making his first film in English for
some reason, I don’t know.
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