While not nearly as mannered as GEORGE WASHINGTON, ALL THE REAL GIRLS or UNDERTOW -- three films that made critics tag David Gordon Green a filmmaker to watch –- the uneven, at times even comic tone spoils the grim beauty of Stewart O’Nan’s novel about disintegrating marriages and adolescent disillusion in a rust-belt town.
The town -- a suburb of Pittsburgh -- isn't as rusty as O'Nan once imagined, its past is no longer submerged under a man-made lake, and the timeframe has been moved from the early 1970s to the present. On a clear winter's afternoon, high-school trombone player Arthur Parkinson (Michael Angarano) is practicing with the James Polk High Sch...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a