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4/10
I really wanted to like this...
jz-102 August 2020
The coming-of-age film in a mostly natural setting can work, and work beautifully. Think Stand By Me, The Tree of Life, or Hide Your Smiling Faces. This is not one of those. The previous reviewer, who said "there is no story" was not exaggerating. There is NOTHING here, except beautiful photography, for which it gets the four stars.Not only is there no plot, there is no script. The film appears to be entirely improvised. I can only imagine the director told the young actors "Hang out by river, the woods, and the mall, and ignore the camera. Forget we're even here." That's it. What's more, there is so much potential for a story to break out in some scenes. The boys talk to two pretty girls in an amusement park. And cut. One boy is chased by some other kids. And cut.

The plot summary is completely false. There is no sense of time, no sense of change. I really did want to like this, but there is truly no "there" there.
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1/10
Nothing!!!
chemist67891016 August 2020
The storyline above is a lie. This movie is 89 minutes of nothing. It gives no sense of past or change. It follows two kids around who do nothing and barely speak to each other. It has about 50 minutes of footage, from a distance, of them just walking, nowhere in particular. At the end of each walking scenes, they walk out of the shot and the camara just stays on the background scream for a while, like the crew all fell asleep and forgot they were supposed to be making a movie. All this movie did was move me 89 minutes closer to death. This review is longer than the script.
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1/10
NOTHING...No Really...NOTHING
ChicagoMan4116 December 2021
It has no plot or script. Just 2 boys with too much time on their hands doing NOTHING. Why would anyone actually watch it? I hate the producer's guts for making me waste so much time thinking something was going to happen. I think that would be an understandable minimum expectation.
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3/10
Beautiful pictures, no story
chuckxx15 May 2020
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Most of the movie you see some forest the boys are wandering around. No real plot or story. The movie is supposed to be a drama. Not much of it either.

If the director wanted the audience to feel the boredom of the boys, he succeeded. The movie is just that: boring waste of time.

There are better movies of coming of age than this one, where they spy on a hooker and eventually pay her to strip.
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3/10
Still waiting....
joninfinity-17 January 2024
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This movie seemed to have so much potential. A coming of age story, yet it seemed like not much more than an average week of summer vacation. As other reviews have stated, nothing really happens. There was some typical, yet tame boy-like adventuring. Roaming the woods, building a camp of sorts, and just two buddies hanging out. But there was no plot, no real story. Then a sequence of other boys chasing them in the woods, where they split up and one boy was unexplainably missing for several scenes. All in all, the viewer is left waiting for something to happen, the payoff, the big surprise which never came. Disappointing.
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