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Title: The more strange, the better
Review: I was enchanted and stirred by this film. It begins very much grounded in sad realities --a teenage boy dying of cancer, his widowed mother bereft as she tries to help him pass away with as much happiness and dignity as possible. But as the story unspools itself, it moves beyond reality -- in fact, beyond expectation -- as the young man edges toward ever closer communion with his late father, with spiritual truths, and with his own earthly and adolescent dreams. The more strange and ethereal this story got, the more I enjoyed it. The performances are true and compelling, particularly Michael Angarano's and Cynthia Nixon's. This was a movie I happened on almost by chance, and not the sort I would have normally seen. That would have been my loss. I've thought about it quite a bit since I saw it in a theatre more than a month ago. I'm certain to see it again.
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