Griffin Dunne adapts Dirk Wittenborn's guiltily pleasurable but not very good "emotional autobiography" about his youth spent among America's ultrarich and WASPy into an even worse film that was shelved for three years before release. Not even the always reliable Diane Lane can save this one.
New York City's Lower East Side, 1980: Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) is leading a wayward, barely supervised adolescence in a grungy loft apartment with his drug-addicted mother, professional masseuse Liz (Lane). Liz became pregnant with Finn after a fling with famous anthropologist Fox Blanchard (Wittenborn), and this summer she's finally relented and is ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
107 mins