![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (The last time Rebecca met someone on the Boston & Maine, her mother recalls, she came home pregnant.) Simon and Joe occupy a world of their own, swimming and boating and slipping invisibly around town. Russell ( David Strathairn), the local minister Grandma Wenteworth ( Dana Ivey), Rebecca's mother Miss Leavey ( Jan Hooks), the Sunday school teacher who endures Simon's theological insights, and Ben ( Oliver Platt), a man Rebecca meets on the train and brings home for supper. They include Simon's loutish parents, who don't like him the Rev. The other key characters could all be from Norman Rockwell paintings. "You're already a bastard, might as well be an enlightened one.'' Rebecca is a sunny, loving mother whose one lapse has, if anything, improved her character. "I don't understand why she doesn't just tell you,'' Simon says. Joe is a boy without a father his mother, Rebecca ( Ashley Judd), steadfastly refuses to name names. If you were me, you'd know, too.'' Joe and Simon are drawn together because they're both misfits. Girls don't kiss baby turtles.'' How do you know, asks Joe. ![]() When Joe tells him a local girl finds him cute, he sniffs, "She means cute like a baby turtle is cute. He is very short and very cute, and very wise about the fact of his dwarfism. Played by Ian Michael Smith with remarkable cockiness, he's the smartest person in Sunday school and possibly in town. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |