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Video Release Date: May 21, 2002; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: John Leguizamo and Rosie Perez
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By Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk is a senior writer at EW and the author of ''Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desparate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor''

Most movies featuring mentally challenged protagonists teach that we can all learn from the innocence of special people, but Leguizamo's Knicks-obsessed Seymour, who has the intellect of an 11-year-old, learns that everyone of average intellect is a bastard. Whenever he leaves his Manhattan apartment, he is bullied and attacked, and eventually he witnesses a horrific murder. Leguizamo vanishes heartbreakingly into his role, but, unfortunately, such nuance doesn't always apply to the rest of the relentlessly -- save a contrived happy ending -- dark script.


Posted May 31, 2002
 

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