Screenwriter Charles Kephart's portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-virgin was probably a therapeutic experience for him, but viewers will probably be less charmed by its parade of dated sex fantasies. Shy Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) leaves home for college, taking with him two prized possessions — a steamer trunk and a typewriter — that allegedly belonged to his father. Jones idealizes his absentee dad's memory, while he's thoroughly dismissive of his self-absorbed mother, Blanche (Elizabeth Perkins); when Jones needs to vent he types, but never mails, notes to his daddy which he subsequently stores in his trunk. Jones moves into a rooming house and has his fi...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins