Christopher Plummer propelled this film into its content. He made everything fall into place, includng the justifible lawlessness pervading the characters.
The film revolves around persons with talent and their lack of fiscal clout to express themselves. The youngest of the cast is a high school student longing to make a 'short film' that matters while in contest for a prize.
He meets an elderly man that lives with a group of 'old stage hands' in a home where they are pent up without venues for their continued desire for expression. Hence, the plot for a film that entertains the imagination for the potential of elder abuse as tempered by a young man seeking purpose beyond being pleasing to parents.
What surprised me was the degree violence was engaged as an aspect of content to this film. There are several times when violence intermingles with the story line and brings about the reality that poverty begets different priorities at any age.
Without giving the ending away, the story resounds in unusual content except for the heart warming reality time goes forward in the human condition and it is tempered by those we meet along the way.
