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Running Time
87
min
MPAA rating
Unrated
Release Date
Mar 2, 2012
Boy
Featuring probably the best goat performance and certainly the best ensemble moonwalk in our 2010 programme, New Zealand's second biggest-ever movie is riotous fun; and a stirring portrait of children dealing with extremes. Bright-eyed 11-year-old Boy loves no-one more than Michael Jackson - until his much-mythologised, dad returns home from a long absence. Much male bonding follows; but is his father really such a heroic figure... ?
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There are two coming-of-age movies about boys coping with flawed fathers that open in the Boston area today. “The Kid With a Bike,’’ from Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, is cool, calm, observant, and heartbreaking. “Boy’’ is everything that film is not: hyper-stylized, funny, a crowd-pleaser, and ultimately the lesser emotional journey. You could do worse than drag your teenagers to see it.
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