Crutch (film)

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Crutch
Directed by Rob Moretti
Written byPaul Jacks
Rob Moretti
Produced byMichael Philip Anthony
Rob Moretti
Eric Smith
CinematographyBrian Fass
Edited byJennifer Erickson
Rob Moretti
Music byBen Goldberg
Distributed byArdustry Home Entertainment LLC
HP Releasing
Release date
  • September 17, 2004 (2004-09-17)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Crutch is a 2004 autobiographical coming of age film written and directed by Rob Moretti. [1] [2]

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Synopsis

Young David (Eben Gordon) seems to have a normal middle-class life in the suburban world outside New York City. When David's father (James A. Earley) leaves his alcoholic wife (Juanita Walsh) after 17 years, David is forced to become parent to his siblings and caregiver to his alcoholic mother. Theater coach Kenny (Rob Moretti) becomes enamoured of David. Overwhelmed by his home situation, David is weakened and falls prey to the taboo. Giving in to Kenny's advances, David becomes involved with drugs and alcohol.

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Critical response

Anita Gates of The New York Times writes "'Crutch' doesn't have the texture or power of "Blue Car," Karen Moncrieff's 2002 film with Agnes Bruckner as the neglected, emotionally needy teenager and David Strathairn as the high school poetry teacher who takes advantage ... [it] does sound a note of real anguish, however." [3] Don Willmott of Filmcritic.com writes "'Crutch' comes across as an extremely personal exorcism of Moretti's suburban gothic adolescence, for better and for worse. Like the scribblings in a teenager's diary, the film vacillates between insight and exaggeration". [4] Movies Online opines "'CRUTCH' is a captivating and brutally honest look into love, loss, lies and our own dark secrets". [5] However, on the negative side, DVD Verdict opines that "Rob Moretti's Crutch is the kind of film I feel bad for not liking. It's awfully sincere, and, darn it, everyone involved tries real hard, but the movie still comes up short". [6]

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References

  1. rottentomatoes.com, Crutch, Retrieved 12-10-2008
  2. phase9.tv Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine , Crutch, Retrieved 12-10-2008
  3. Anita Gates (2004-09-17). "Sixteen and Desperate, With No One to Lend an Ear". The New York Times.
  4. filmcritic.com Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , A film review by Don Willmott, Retrieved 12-10-2008
  5. moviesonline.con Archived 2008-12-27 at the Wayback Machine , "Crutch A Rob Moretti Film", Retrieved 12-10-2008
  6. Bromley, Patrick. "Review - Crutch". dvdverdict.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2008-12-10.

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