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Title: A Salutary Narrative
Review: For his directorial debut, Rocky Costanzo has chosen an uncommonly ambitious story that tries to comment on child abuse and the prejudices surrounding an intergenerational relationship. Unfortunately for him though, the screenplay by Gary Frazier touches on issues of homosexuality and pedophilia, which even in the hands of an experienced director may have been difficult to get across the factual emotions and reactions necessary to lift the film from the level of simple drama to that of extraordinary motion picture. Occasional missteps cause this film to get abandoned somewhere along the way, but despite its flaws, it is an affecting film and surprisingly good for someone's directorial debut.
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