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Cecil
USA 2019
produced by Amanda Dillingham, Jay Dee Walters (executive) for Behind the Curtain Media, Blind Turn Films
directed by Spenser Fritz
starring Jason London, Jenna von O˙, Christa Beth Campbell, Sark Asadourian, Mary Alfred Thoma, Sophie Harris, Jay Dee Walters, Mike Keith, Valerie Jane Parker, Hudson Pregont, Aaron Munoz, Avary Anderson, Susannah Devereux, Kaiden Scott, Noah Scott, Graham Schneider, Chris Carson, Lj Edwards, Ezra Solano, Bill Bomes, Kimberly Sebastian-Fritz, Sarah Reynolds, Drake Light, Noah Quarles, Isaiah Harris, Isaiah Link, Morgan Robertson, Amiya Harris, Ezra Robb, Alex Wolfe, Melanie Wheeler, Bennett Rodgers, Jacob Craig, Lamar Edwards, Ray G. Link jr, Mykie Fisher, Terrence Bradley, Robert Downs, Jackson Fults, Henry Stephenson, Sasha Asadourian, Avalon Gomez, Diana Moseley, Kadence Riggs
written by Spenser Fritz, music by Bill Mitchell
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Cecil Stephens (Sark Asadourian) has a bit of a problem: He has a lisp,
and saying his name with a lisp sounds just ... odd. Now that might not
sound like much, but Cecil is 9, and as his parents (Jason London, Jenna
von O˙) have just separated he's
sent to a new school - where saying one's own name with a lisp is social
suicide. Thank God then that the first person Cecil makes friends with is
nerdy Abby (Christa Beth Campbell), who encourages him to make up a new
(lisp-secure) name - Michael Jordan, no less -, and she even helps Cecil
to hack into the school computer to actually change his name
(pseudo-)officially. This makes Cecil a popular guy, and the
top-basketballer, too. But problems are a-brewing at the school as the
principal (Jay Dee Walters) has lost a shitload at gambling and now is
using the school budget to pay back his debts, which means he's slashing
down on extra-curricular activities - including the school newspaper,
which is Abby's big thing. So she, Cecil and Abby's fellow nerd Martha
(Mary Alfred Thoma) start selling fake names to their fellow students -
and thus, she school paper stays afloat, slowly revealing things about the
principal he might not approve of all that much. Plus he doesn't like
dealings going on in his school where he isn't involved - and he's not one
to shy back from playing rough if it serves his own interests ...
As entertainment for
pre-teens and early teens go, this is actually a pretty fun flick, as it
doesn't try to drive a message home via sledgehammer or tries to sugarcoat
things but obviously finds enjoyment in telling a fun story that at times
crosses the boundaries of good taste and moves along with as much humour
as possible ... in other words, a film that should go well with its target
audience, but is likely to also sit well with more grown up audiences.
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review Š by Mike Haberfelner
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