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- Synopsis
- A man who can't walk meets a woman who envies his condition in this offbeat black comedy. Isaac Knott (Nick Stahl) lost the use of his legs when he was eight years old in an auto accident that also claimed the lives of his parents....
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- Starring
- Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Pitts, Aimee Mullins, Jeane Fournier
- Director(s)
- Carlos Brooks
- Distributor(s)
- Magnolia
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 81 min.
Critic Reviews
A strikingly original and provocative first feature from scribe-helmer Carlos Brooks.Read the full review
Stahl and Farmiga give layered, restrained performances that keep what might have been a schlock fest with an improbable twist ending from devolving into trashiness. Instead, Brooks and his actors manage to render an involving and thoughtful story from some pretty dubious material.Read the full review
Stahl quietly plays the straight man, giving the usually skillful Farmiga plenty of room to overact with abandon; she plays her character as one part Rosanna Arquette in David Cronenberg's "Crash" to two parts Natalie Portman's magical life-saving pixie in "Garden State."Read the full review
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