missflyer 's review for:

The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca

4.0

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I was on the edge of my seat (figuratively) to see what would happen next, thinking it might be one thing then it was not quite that but not quite another, either. A good teacher just wants to help out a quiet kid she sees has promise but comes from a very difficult homelife, but ends up getting in over her head. Sometimes the stories kids write are not quite so different from reality after all…I’d be quite intrigued to see the movie adapted from this, to see what they’ll do and how they’ll extend it to full-movie length. (Aside: I like the story’s title better than the movie title of “Antlers” – enough with these one word movie titles already! Plus there was already “Horns” from 2013)