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Beautiful Ohio (2006)

Beautiful Ohio poster
Directed by
Chad Lowe
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy navigates family dynamics and first love in 1970s suburban America. The story follows his growing pains and the secrets his parents keep.

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What happens

Beautiful Ohio is a 2006 American film, directed by Chad Lowe and starring William Hurt, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Julianna Margulies. The film, based on the short story "Batorsag and Szerelem" by Ethan Canin, is a coming of age drama/comedy set in the 1970s. The film was shown at the 2006 AFI Fest. It also showed at the 2007 Sarasota Film Festival, where Trachtenberg won the award for Breakthrough Performance and Lowe won the Red Star Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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