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Movie Review: 'The Tic Code'

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Polly Draper and Gregory Hines

Scripted by Draper, this sleeper casts the thirtysomething alum as a single mom who introduces her son (Christopher George Marquette), a piano student with Tourette's syndrome, to a jazz saxophonist (Hines) with the same disorder. Despite TV-level production values, it bravely avoids Afterschool Special-style lessons. And unlike a recent subplot on Ally McBeal, it doesn't treat Tourette's as a cutesy quirk. B+

Originally posted Mar 09, 2001 Published in issue #586 Mar 09, 2001 Order article reprints
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