I was mildly surprised by this movie for the better. I had heard some
bad things about it, but wanted to watch it anyway for some time as this
is the movie Zelda Williams is in (my son Mark's date to the senior
prom) as well as Robin Williams. The
movie came out in 2004. I must admit there were some things to not
like. It is about a 13 year old young man, whose best friend is the
developmentally challenged janitor (Robin Williams) at the school. On
the side the deliver meat together to make money to buy a green bike.
Tommy (Anton Yelchin) the 13 year old also befriends a woman in the women's detention
facility. He also has a crush on a girl (Zelda Williams) who lives with
her mother in a hotel and also has a crush on him. So with the lady's
advice from the detention facility, he goes to the dance, and dances
with her, and then leaves with her. The janitor becomes upset, and
steals the bike from the store front, and then also takes their savings,
and throws it into the ocean to make a wish.
So the janitor is about to lose his job. Rather than let that happen,
the 13 year old says he stole it for him. The janitor keeps his job,
but the kid is expelled. This upsets his mother (Tea Leoni) so much
she o.d.'s on pills. As a result, he takes off, and is able to get to
France, by helping himself to the money of one of their customers, who
in her alzheimer's state, mistakes him for her son, an gives him the
money.
So the movie is his coming to terms with his life, and his having left under unfavorable circumstances.
It was enjoyable, but the down draw was the movie's being fixated on the
kid going to the restroom and shooting at his mom's cigarettes left in
the toilet.
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