Avenue of the Giants
5.5
2023
1 hr 44 min
Drama
A 74-year-old man carrying a traumatic secret befriends an isolated teenager in an emotional story of multigenerational healing.
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- Cast:
- Elsie Fisher , Stephen Lang
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not as good as all the hype
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Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
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As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
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