REVIEW | Growing Pains: Azazel Jacobs Triumphs With Moving Teen Drama “Terri”

REVIEW | Growing Pains: Azazel Jacobs Triumphs With Moving Teen Drama “Terri”
Azazel Jacobs’s 2008 drama “Momma’s Man” centered on an adult retreating to his parents’ house and yearning for the innocence of his teenage years. The director’s latest feature, “Terri,” centers on a teen fearing adulthood. Jacobs, working from a script by Patrick de Witt, takes a conventional coming-of-age story and does it proud, enlivening the plot with an almost experimental portrait of …
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Pioneering the West on a trip through the minors
MISSOULA, Mont.—Eight baseball games, eight different ballparks, eight days. We would have seen eight home-team wins, but the Missoula Osprey blew the ninth-inning lead in the trip opener.
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Joanne Bamberger: Michele Bachmann: Upping the Political Motherhood Paradigm
Will Michele Bachmann become the GOP candidate? Not so long ago, I would have said no, but as none of the Republican men-folk seem to be sparking any Barack Obama-like devotion, she may stand a chance.
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