Drama

Joe Bell

Nine Stories Productions

Argent Pictures

Endeavor Content

Parliament of Owls

Rhea Films

Stay Gold Features

VisionChaos Productions

Closest to the Hole Productions

Hercules Film Fund

Leverage Entertainment

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Mark Wahlberg

Reid Miller

Connie Britton

Maxwell Jenkins

Morgan Lily

Gary Sinise

Tara Buck

Ash Santos

Igby Rigney

Cindy Perez

Scout Smith

Coral Chambers

Blaine Maye

Blake Barlow

Charles Halford

Jayne Luke

Juan Antonio

Kenadee Clark

Cassie Beck

Jake Brown

Jordan Davis

Allan A. Apone

Greg T. Moon

Moin Uddin

Tannis Poynter

Les Boothe

Roger Crandall

Susan Matheson

Antonio Pinto

Hayden Kiessling

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Diana Ossana

Eva Maria Daniels

Riva Marker

Larry McMurtry

Daniela Taplin Lundberg

Jill Ahrens

Ben Renzo

Stephen Levinson

Derrick Brooks

Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis

Tony Parker

Michael Finley

Jean-Luc De Fanti

Reinaldo Marcus Green

Ryan Ahrens

Drew Brees

Terry Dougas

Kelly McGehee

Edward Tise

Jacques Jouffret

Mark Sanger

Jake Gyllenhaal

Uwe Feuersenger

Peter Pastorelli

Morgan Muse

Teddy Blanks

Chris Carroll

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Reid Miller is quite engaging here as the bullied gay youngster Jadin Bell. His time at school is torrid, and he seems unable to secure any help to protect him from the bigoted assholes he must face each day. His father (Mark Wahlberg) is supportive, but in a 'don't ask don't tell" sort of fashion, the appalling position also taken by the principal at his school. Eventually, the pressure all just proves too much and the young man takes his own life. This inspires his father to try to walk from their home to New York raising the issues of homophobia and bullying as he goes. Wahlberg's name is what will do the work here; his participation in highlighting these issues of both physical and psychological intimidation ought to resound with whomever watches this, reads about it, or sees any of his publicity blurb. As a piece of cinema, though, it's pretty mediocre. Barring a scene with the two leads doing a bit of a Lady Gaga routine, the drama and the acting are fairly sterile and it takes recourse to a few handsome, but cop-out, power ballads when the script runs out of anything meaningful to say. It's a shocking testament that this still goes on in 2022 in a nation that purports to be civilised - and though this film, in itself, is largely forgettable, let's hope the message isn't.

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