Toronto-based filmmaker Amnon Buchbinder tackles the sensitive subject of adolescent sexuality in this winning coming-of-age character study set in a wintry small town in Nova Scotia.
Thirteen-year-old Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber) is the unusually self-possessed only child of Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins) and Rog Emerson (Robert Joy), the kind of parents who believe that a family who saunas together in the nude is a family that stays together. Homeschooled his entire life and raised in a house constructed of straw bales his mother designed and his father built (Rog is an inventor dedicated to creating greener, environmentally responsible habitats for humans) dee...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins