Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/02/2000
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
In this Canadian film, overweight piano prodigy Junior Brown (
Martin Villafana) searches for a piano because his goofy mother (
Lynn Whitfield) severed the strings on the family piano. Since paranoid Miss Peebs (
Margot Kidder), his piano teacher, won't let him finger her keyboard, he has to run scales on her dining room table. Fortunately, Junior has a friend -- troubled Buddy Clark (
Rainbow Sun Francks) who lost his family in a fire when he was a young child. Buddy goes out with a teen runaway (
Sarah Polley), and he helps eccentric school janitor Mr. Pool (
Clark Johnson) construct a model of the solar system in the school basement. Junior's frustrations mount as his quest continues. Music includes
Chopin's
"Prelude No. 4". Shown at the 1997
Toronto Film Festival.
~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
;)
