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Limited Release: Mar 22, 2002; Rated: PG; Lengths: 91 Minutes, 92 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak and Aidan Quinn
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
At its best, this square and tremulous tale of uplift, about a little Catholic kid (Adi Stein) who innocently tries to convert a little Jewish kid (Mike Weinberg) in the Chicago summer of 1976, is earnest and unironic -- a suburban 1970s story told with the naivete of 1950s TV theater. But absence of irony isn't enough to get into feature-film heaven: The picture (starring Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, and Bonnie Hunt) isn't nearly as interesting as the Project Greenlight enterprise that spawned it.
Posted Apr 05, 2002
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