Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence..
Should you watch this? If you like movies that feel like a dusty, warm photograph, then yes. This is for the people who don't mind a story that takes its sweet time getting nowhere. If you need explosions or a tight plot, you will probably be bored to tears within twenty minutes. It is a slow burn, but not the kind cri...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"Should you watch this? If you like movies that feel like a dusty, warm photograph, then yes. This is for the people who don't mind a story that takes its sweet time getting nowhere. If you need explosions or a tight plot, you will probably be bored to tears within twenty minutes. It is a slow burn, but not the kind critics usually praise for being 'deliberate'—it just likes to hang out. Mickey Rooney is all over this thing. He plays the teenager, Richard, with this desperate, wide-eyed intensit..."
Albert Hackett, Eugene O'Neill, Frances Goodrich
United States
Drama, Comedy
