Whole New Thing (2005)
- Directed by
- Amnon Buchbinder
- Genre
- drama film, comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 26 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A 13 year old boy from an isolated home with free-thinking parents is sent to public school for the first time. He develops a crush on his male teacher and struggles with the feelings and boundaries that come with it.
understatedawkwardemotionally complexslow-pacedintimatethoughtfulgroundedquietly tense
What happens
Whole New Thing is a 2005 Canadian drama film directed by Amnon Buchbinder. The film is a coming-of-age narrative about a 13-year-old boy, Emerson Thorsen (played by Aaron Webber) who lives in an isolated straw-bale house with his counter-cultural parents, Rog (Robert Joy) and Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins). However, when Kaya decides that homeschooling provides too little structure for Emerson, she enrolls him at the local middle-school under the tuition of 43-year-old Don Grant (Daniel MacIvor). Emerson, despite displaying a developed intellectual approach to sexuality, discovers the problems that come with developing a crush, and the taboo of this crush being his male teacher. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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