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KJ's Leading Idiot

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Paper Spiders is a 2020 American drama film directed by Inon Shampanier, written by Natalie and Inon Shampanier, and starring Lili Taylor and Stefania LaVie Owen. It tells the story of a high school girl struggling to help her mother, whose paranoid delusions spiral out of control. It is described as "a bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness."


Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:18 am
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KJ's Leading Idiot

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Lili Taylor runs away with the movie! Taylor is so good that the rest of the elements around her do not matter, she brings so much sympathy, angst towards the character as well as heartfelt concern that is difficult not to be swept away with the character. Stefania LaVie Owen provides a great supporting role but her story always comes in secondary. There have been many coming of age stories in the recent times that tackle challenging parents but this one always feels the other way where in the movie focuses more on mental illness and the effects on the others in this case a teenage daughter. The direction and script never matches the energy of actors on screen, the effects, the atmosphere and the slums settings, final reveal, handling neighbors all seem off and if they were executed better this could have turned into an all time classic.

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