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North Sea Texas
Why this pick
Like Dream Boy, this is a lyrical coming-of-age romance shaped by longing, tentative intimacy, and the ache of finding refuge in another boy amid an emotionally constrained home life.
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MOVIE2008 1h 28m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Fifteen-year-old Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender) moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, a small Southern town with his parents (Thomas Jay Ryan and Diana Scarwid) and starts to befriend the older boy next door, Roy (Maximillian Roeg), fellow high school student and bus driver, who is in a relationship with Evelyn (Rooney Mara). Nathan and Roy start to develop their relationship by helping each other with school work at Nathan's house. While Roy is teaching Nathan how to solve an algebra problem, Nathan touches his hand. Roy pulls away at first, but then takes hold of Nathan's hand.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Thomas Jay Ryan
Harland Davies
Diana Scarwid
Vivian Davies
Owen Beckman
Randy
Tom Gilroy
Preacher Rutherford
Rooney Mara
Evelyn
Randy Wayne
Burke