Made in 2007 this movie, like all well made independent movies, receive great critical acclaim, but made very little at the box office. To be honest this is one of my favorite movies in recent years. It is well made, the cast is great, and it's really funny and touching at the same time. It is set in the 1980's so it took me back a few years.
Will Proudfoot, played by Bill Milner, is the son of very religious mother and an overbearing leader of the local church. I'm not sure which religious affiliation they are intended to represent but it seems as though they are very much offended by modern technology, and anything to do with entertainment, especially television or movies. Will's father has recently died, and the church leader, brother Joshua has taken a keen interest in Will's mother and the boy himself.
However in school, Will has an encounter with the worst kid in school, Lee Carter, played by Will Poulter, and because of the incident Lee Carter tricks Will into helping him with a movie he's making. It turns out though Will has never seen a movie, he has a very active imagination and his Bible and schoolbooks are all filled with drawings. The two boys set off to make the movie together and bond well, becoming "blood brothers" in the process. Both seem to use the movie as an escape from overbearing parents or big brothers.
Ed Westwick plays Lee Carter's overbearing and abusive older brother and does a great job. Much better than the character he plays on television's Gossip Girl. I won't give away the ending but there are some great scenes in this movie, with wonderful cameos by a visiting French exchange student, and the music is wonderful. Definitely rent this one!
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