Fri., Sep. 9, 2005 12:00 AM PDT
Kleptomania, train-hopping and the ember-to-flame blossoming of adolescent sexuality are a few of the topics of Melissa Painter's coming-of-age drama that's just rife with the scent of fresh-cut grass and teenage hormones. The arrival of a 15-year-old wanderer searching for his mother in a tiny Montana town results in a collision of high emotions, a strange and brooding awakening for both the boy and the people whom he touches.
Painter has a graceful sensitivity toward her subject matter and a keen eye for casting, particularly her young leads--Hunter Parrish, Danny Alexander and Paz De la Huerta--who give wonderfully raw, refreshingly honest performances. The result is a film imbued with the tender awkwardness and poignancy of those first wary explorations--those electric moments that occur in the small space between childhood and newly discovered maturity.
Steal a moment and enjoy.
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