Adapted from Dito Montiel's quasi-autobiographical novel, this heartfelt tale of childhood lost (and perhaps found) sees the author-turned-director finding his film-making feet in public. Shia LaBeouf gives it his best shot as young Dito, growing up in New York's increasingly violent Queens neighbourhood in the Eighties. Meanwhile, the mumblesome Robert Downey Jr suffers for his art as the adult Montiel, returning to the old neighbourhood from which he fled to become a feted author.
As past and present intertwine, questions of guilt and loyalty are raised. Did Dito abandon his friends and family only to recycle their suffering in print? Will he ever be reconciled with his parents, terrifically well played by Dianne Wiest and Chazz Palminteri?
And what of old flame Laurie (Rosario Dawson), now raising her own child on the streets where she and Dito once lived? Adapted from Dito Montiel's quasi-autobiographical novel, this heartfelt tale of childhood lost (and perhaps found) sees the author-turned-director finding his film-making feet in public.
News RSS