Gavin Wiesen‘s Homework was recently retitled as The Art of Getting By. During Sundance 2011 I wrote that star Freddie Highmore “delivers every line and emotion exactly the same way with the same faintly self-amused expression, the same faint intellectual-hipster smile, the same space cadet/distracted-artist vibe, the same glassy-eyed stare. I wanted to see him get hit by an MTA bus.”
Fox Searchlight is opening the quirky Manhattan-based romance on 6.17.11.
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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