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Beckie King, Emile Hirsch, Meredith Handerhan

Duncan (Emile Hirsch) is a 14-year-old boy who's always been labeled the "weird" one. When Duncan's mother unexpectedly dies, he takes a bizarre interest in her clothing and starts to speak in her voi...( read more  read more... )ce. His father (Richard Jenkins) doesn't understand his son's conduct, and all the kids poke fun at him. When Duncan befriends a group of older boys by buying them beer, he discovers that one of them, Perry (Tom Guiry), has dark secrets of his own.

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R, 94 min.

Directed by: Michael Burke

Release Date: January 17, 2003

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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006

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Flixster Reviews (125)

  • kerberos19
    November 21, 2009
    kerberos19
    FUCKING REALIFE DRAMAS!!!
  • RockmaryMackerel
    November 4, 2009
    RockmaryMackerel
    good idea, bad production.
  • aiforge
    October 27, 2009
    aiforge
    Hmm...Why have I only discovered this now?
  • SageSlowdive
    September 22, 2009
    SageSlowdive
    Very disturbing and good.
  • logged81
    June 28, 2009
    logged81
    I didn't really know how quite to take this movie after watching it for a while. Duncan, the lead character, is hard for me to figure out. Is he slow? Is he naive? What gives?? Some of the film made little sense and you wonder from the ending what ultimately happened to him. I, f...( read more)or one, do not see much promise in him.
  • madamadore
    February 24, 2009
    madamadore
    heavy and thoughtful. ready to be thought about during the next weeks. not my kind of setting, however, too dusty and muddy. but oh, those are Emile roles. amazing amazing amazing the bite.
  • bvrnz
    February 10, 2009
    bvrnz
    The film follows the story of Duncan, a fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy trying to fill the void and alleviate the numbness left by his mother's passing. Unable to let her go quite yet, Duncan mimics his dead mother. He talks in her voice at the dinner table and wears her fur co...( read more)at to bed. Edgar, Duncan's distant sixty-year-old father, doesn't understand the strange manifestations of his son's mourning. Why can't Duncan grieve like a normal person? Edgar becomes intent on laying down some new rules and turning his coddled son into someone who can take on the family farm.
  • suhedreams
    December 25, 2008
    suhedreams
    interesting gay drama about gay boy living in rural homophobic land.
  • crystalzip2002
    December 25, 2008
    crystalzip2002
    the poor confused boy lost his mother and now he is just a reck.
    this is a really good movie. Emile Hirsch is such a great actor.

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June 25, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Mudge Boy is odd and intense, very well acted, and impossible to dismiss. full review

May 7, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Treads a well-traveled road and needs more than a chicken to be distinctive -- it needs a sense of transcendence, a reason to endure its sadness. full review

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