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Went to see this movie yesterday. Wasn't going to, but my mum was going to the cinema and I hadn't been for a while so I went. For those of you who don't know, it's an Australian film about a teenage boy with an autistic brother.

Opinions?

Thought it was... all right. Never that bad, but never really went beyond all right. Some ok performances. But it could definitely have been shorter. I felt it took nigh two hours to tell a story that could have been told just as well in thirty minutes.

And if I were a reviewer I would say Two stars out of Four or Five.

So has anyone seen it and what do you think?
Here's my post from mid-February.

I liked it. I don't think it should have been shorter. I mean, the director already had to extremely cut down her experiences with her two autistic brothers to make them fit into the 90-minutes-frame of a movie.
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