It gets five stars for the lead actors (Mann, the young lady and her "nephew.")
But begs the question: can someone make an indie film without relying on the dependable clichés?
Clichés such as:
High school students are cruel jerks to those who are different. No one treats the different like human beings because...well...that would take too much time to write.
Those who are different are complete outcasts (as in: only the other freaks are nice to them, there isn't a single reasonably decent non- freak human being to be found).
Frat Boys are The Evilz. Always.
Heterosexual people will always turn violent toward homosexuals.
Jeez. There was a good idea here, but the writer/director's lack of imagination hamstrung his own efforts, and left his actors with not a hell of a lot to do.
But begs the question: can someone make an indie film without relying on the dependable clichés?
Clichés such as:
High school students are cruel jerks to those who are different. No one treats the different like human beings because...well...that would take too much time to write.
Those who are different are complete outcasts (as in: only the other freaks are nice to them, there isn't a single reasonably decent non- freak human being to be found).
Frat Boys are The Evilz. Always.
Heterosexual people will always turn violent toward homosexuals.
Jeez. There was a good idea here, but the writer/director's lack of imagination hamstrung his own efforts, and left his actors with not a hell of a lot to do.