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

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)

Trailer

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