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- 2012
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- Oscilloscope
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- 2012
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- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 12 m
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.
Directed By: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 12 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 12 m
Only the Young
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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.
Directed By: Elizabeth Mims, Jason Tippet
Where to Watch
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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6 Reviews
33% Mixed
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And 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.
Not much of real significance happens, which makes Only The Young feel a bit slight, even at a mere 70 minutes. At the same time, though, every hint of direct conflict threatens to break the spell, in part because the film's secret subject is adolescent self-consciousness.
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Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims refuse to use their subjects as test cases for any sort of larger thesis.
If Mr. Tippet and Ms. Mims weren't such accomplished visual stylists, you might even think that the teenagers shot the documentary themselves, which explains both its appeal and its limitations.
Only the Young captures the lyricism of late childhood and the bewilderment of the road ahead. As for the skate footage, it's shot for pure glory and for all the world, like Wild China or Blue Planet, beautiful beings struggling in exotic habitats: abandoned houses, red-gold bluffs, and run-down mini-golf courses.
At times, the film's lyrical drift shades into incoherence, spackled with globs of free-floating voiceover and Larry Clark-like indolent moments. It's both lovely and frustrating, at least until hard times lay bare the gulf between Skye's fractured family and the boys' more stable lives.
A charming, aimless film about the aimless. It plays like a nuanced MTV reality show (an oxymoron, perhaps, but you get the idea).
Release Date Dec 7, 2012
Duration 1 h 12 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Children are the gods of this city.
Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
