Her career hobbled by uninspired material since the commercial bonanza of “Twilight’s” first screen installment 15 years ago, Catherine Hardwicke at first appears to be back on firmer terra with “P…
and her son, soon reveals itself as a formulaic contrivance heading towards predictable strife and tearjerking. Competently handled and well-cast, it’s nonetheless held back from generating much authentic emotion by the too-familiar beats of Mark Bacci’s script. Vertical Entertainment is opening the feature, which premiered at TIFF last fall, on limited U.S. theatrical screens this Friday. It’ll doubtless do better in release to home formats, those dates as yet TBA.
Things aren’t going so well for Maxine, however, so she’s willing to accept Max as a paying tenant: Her 12-year-old son Ezra , has medication needs for his epilepsy, and she family has no health insurance to speak of. Bills are piling up, opportunities scarce. Worse still, her crazy ex-boyfriend Tyler has just caused her to lose a restaurant job — showing up demanding to see his son, the volatile rock drummer/drug addict/squatter managed to punch her manager in the face before stomping out.
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