Let me begin by saying this is not a movie about evil child-molesting preachers. The stumbled upon this movie through the recommendation of a teacher *shhh*.
This is a "coming of age" story about two boys growing up as alter boys in a strict catholic system. I really liked the relationship of the two boys, but I feel the movie was damaged whenever it strayed from their relationship and focused on the love interest of one of the two boys. Also, there's a twist involving the love interest that I feel was really uneeded and rather repulsive. It was one of those "ooh that's horrible but this is an indie film so it's ok for that to happen" twists. The ending was also the ending I feared from the start, and it wasn't good and felt more unreal then the animimated sequences that are peppered throughout the mostly live-action movie.
This movie is just a less good version of stand by me. Think "Stand by Me" meets "The Girl Next Door" and that's what you've got.
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