Set primarily in Greenwich Village in the '70s, actor David Duchovny's feature writing/directing debut is a house divided against itself. It delivers some eloquent glimpses of an offbeat adolescence, in large part through Anton Yelchin's performance as 13-year-old Tommy Warshaw, the sensitive, perpetually worried son of a fragile single mother (Tea Leoni, Duchovny's wife) hanging on by her cigarettes and tranquilizers. But the war between highly specific coming-of-age angst and icky-sticky overcoming-adversity cliches eventually brings the whole thing down. The film opens as expatriate American artist Tom Warshaw (Duchovny) reconsiders his own coming of age on the oc...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins