Dandelion

First-time director Mark Milgard displays enormous promise and a surprisingly sensitive touch with this beautifully rendered tragedy about a Idaho teenager who discovers himself only after being betrayed by his own father. A daydreamer whose thoughts generally revolve around suicide, Mason Mullich (Vincent Kartheiser) has always been something of an outsider in the tight-knit farming community where his father, Luke (an excellent Arliss Howard), hopes to be elected to the town council. Depressed and cynical beyond his years, Mason has no illusions about love, and even after meeting pretty new-girl-in-town Danny Voss (HUSTLE AND FLOW standout Taryn Manning), he still ...