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- Summary: A 10-year-old piano prodigy, against the wishes of his instructor, dreams of becoming a jazz pianist. This interest leads him to find a mentor in a famous jazz sax player who bonds with the boy because of their shared interest in jazz and because they each suffer from Tourette's Syndrome.
- Director: Gary Winick
- Genre(s): Drama
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90Director Gary Winick ("Sweet Nothing") ingeniously complements Draper's layered approach by modulating the film's energy in fascinating ways.
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80Starts out self-consciously but gets better as it goes along, winding up as affecting as it is illuminating.
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75Has the schematic feel of a disease-of-the-week TV movie, but the connections made between jazz and the minds that produce it turns the film into something much more intimate and compelling.
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60A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.
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