Really Surprised!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

This movie completely surprised me, something I've experienced only a few times in 50+ years of movie viewing. Saying even this much risks spoiling, so I will simply recommend this imperfect, entertaining, slightly edifying and enlightening, sometimes disturbing, barely known work of barely known makers.Kudos to Eric Badros and Taylor Graham, and I hope to see much more from them.