This movie embodies the challenges that teenagers face and the changes they have in life through Henry Gambling, a young teenager guy and the son of a preacher, who celebrates his 17th birthday.
The acting is so naturalistic and the various subplots are so well balanced that the confused piety of the characters gradually begins to feel like anyone else's everyday problems.
A chance to probe evangelical Christianity, with all of its contradictions and intolerance, by someone definitely in the know is blown here by an undue emphasis on melodrama.
Where is love? Within a brightly appointed suburban home, the spirit and the flesh: every character is alive and so gently fearful of what moment may pass after this one. Tone matters... Bright, bumptious and loving,
