We caught this film on One TV (a United Arab Emirates satellite channel).
I am amazed this movie did not receive wide distribution. The production values are superb (except for the cheesy green smoke), it has a clever, comical Twilight Zone feel to it, the story and characters grab your interest because they are so human (we all know kids who struggle between what they want versus what their parents want for them), and is sufficiently strange to keep you off balance, while poking fun at the human condition, bashing materialism, lawyers, touchy-feely tolerance, political correctness, art critics, and various other sacred cows. It really explores a lot of real issues of life.
As others have noted, most of the foul language was not really necessary, but that is a minor quibble, easy to bleep-out for TV or family release.
James Marsden is believable, Amy Stewart briefly hilarious, Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd carry the film with their humor and weirdness, Chris Cooper and Wayne Robson are great, and M J Fox and Kurt Russell are terrific in their cameos.
Well worth seeing, if not quite Oscar material. Given the amount of trash released theatrically, I cannot figure out why this did not make the cut. The cast alone should sell the picture.
I am amazed this movie did not receive wide distribution. The production values are superb (except for the cheesy green smoke), it has a clever, comical Twilight Zone feel to it, the story and characters grab your interest because they are so human (we all know kids who struggle between what they want versus what their parents want for them), and is sufficiently strange to keep you off balance, while poking fun at the human condition, bashing materialism, lawyers, touchy-feely tolerance, political correctness, art critics, and various other sacred cows. It really explores a lot of real issues of life.
As others have noted, most of the foul language was not really necessary, but that is a minor quibble, easy to bleep-out for TV or family release.
James Marsden is believable, Amy Stewart briefly hilarious, Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd carry the film with their humor and weirdness, Chris Cooper and Wayne Robson are great, and M J Fox and Kurt Russell are terrific in their cameos.
Well worth seeing, if not quite Oscar material. Given the amount of trash released theatrically, I cannot figure out why this did not make the cut. The cast alone should sell the picture.