The kids aren't alright
August 14, 2011 6:24 PM Subscribe
Name that movie, indie film edition.
I've been racking my brain to come up with the name of an indie film I saw the second half of a year or two ago, probably on IFC. The movie focuses around a bunch of tweens or young teens dealing with some seriously heavy subject matter. In particular, I recall:
- A young asian girl develops a major crush on a 20something former fireman that now works construction. Ends up trying to seduce him, at which point he calls her mother and group embarrassment ensues.
- Said former fireman is a tortured soul that left the job because he found a horribly burned child on a call. The child asked to die, and he suffocated the kid and is haunted by the act.
- A group of young kids are hiding a gun from their parents. One of the children shoots a bully and hides the body on a construction site. I think the same one our former fireman is working.
Writing out the plot points, it sounds terribly overdone, but I mentally marked it for a full viewing at some point. I recall finding it pretty well done.
I've been racking my brain to come up with the name of an indie film I saw the second half of a year or two ago, probably on IFC. The movie focuses around a bunch of tweens or young teens dealing with some seriously heavy subject matter. In particular, I recall:
- A young asian girl develops a major crush on a 20something former fireman that now works construction. Ends up trying to seduce him, at which point he calls her mother and group embarrassment ensues.
- Said former fireman is a tortured soul that left the job because he found a horribly burned child on a call. The child asked to die, and he suffocated the kid and is haunted by the act.
- A group of young kids are hiding a gun from their parents. One of the children shoots a bully and hides the body on a construction site. I think the same one our former fireman is working.
Writing out the plot points, it sounds terribly overdone, but I mentally marked it for a full viewing at some point. I recall finding it pretty well done.
Response by poster: Thank you Johnny! I just could not pull together the right search terms for the life of me.
posted by bfranklin at 6:36 PM on August 14, 2011
posted by bfranklin at 6:36 PM on August 14, 2011
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posted by Johnny Assay at 6:33 PM on August 14, 2011