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- Summary: The friendship between a couple of high school boys in California, both snowboarders and evangelical Christians, is explored in this documentary by Eliazabeth Mimsand Jason Tippet.
- Director: Elizabeth Mims
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Documentary
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89And yet that is what is so very remarkable about the film: In a slim 72 minutes, it heart-tethers us to these teenagers, paying tribute to their unique and private selves while allowing the audience to see its own reflection in them.
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75Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims refuse to use their subjects as test cases for any sort of larger thesis.
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75The film thwarts any pat expectations you might glean from the town's bad economy and these checkered backgrounds. The teenagers are refreshingly gentle and clean-living; they don't drink, they don't swear and they certainly aren't having sex. All three are religious, a fact that is neither emphasized nor underplayed.
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60Only the Young rarely coalesces into anything more meaningful than a casual collection of moments. Maybe that's the point.
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