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Opening Date: Mar 25, 2007; Lead Performance: Rita Wilson; Writer: Lisa Loomer; Director: Leonard Foglia; Genre: Drama
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''Is childhood a disorder now?'' barks a protective dad in Lisa Loomer's Distracted, wondering if his 9-year-old's supposed ADD might have been diagnosed as mere moxie by prior generations. Pro-psychiatric-drug viewpoints are aired, but as for Loomer's conclusion — let's just say Tom Cruise will love Distracted. So might you; as polemics go, it's heartfelt and divertingly waggish. Rita Wilson's warmth grounds the show; if her Ritalin-doubting mom can be a bit smug, she does prompt Bronson Pinchot's shrink to break the fourth wall with several seriously funny tantrums.
Posted Mar 30, 2007
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