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Josh Wiggins, left, plays Franky in Keith Behrman's Giant Little Ones.Courtesy of Mongrel Media

  • Giant Little Ones
  • Written and directed by: Keith Behrman
  • Starring: Josh Wiggins, Kyle MacLachlan and Maria Bello
  • Classification: 14A
  • 93 minutes

Rating:

3 out of 4 stars
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Kyle MacLachlan, right, stars in the film as Franky’s father, whose own out-of-closet happening broke up the family.Courtesy of Mongrel Media

Early in Giant Little Ones, a high-school science class watches blooming chemical reactions in a beaker. “Pay attention,” the teacher says, “because this is all going to happen very quickly.” That’s a metaphor for coming-of-age changes. Written and directed by Keith Behrman (Flower & Garnet), the tender but untimid drama Giant Little Ones stars up-and-comer Josh Wiggins as Franky, a good-looking guy who after a boozy birthday party winds up in bed with his hunky bro-friend instead of his hot girlfriend. The experimentation sets off a chain reaction of sexual confusion and adolescent judgments. Kyle MacLachlan plays Franky’s father, whose own out-of-closet happening broke up the family. Director Behrman enigmatically cuts to lingering images of trees and breezes far too often, but with his mature film we see the forest for the trees nevertheless. Kids grow up fast, but not as fast as their hormones. Adult in size, childlike otherwise.

Giant Little Ones opens March 29 in Toronto and Vancouver.

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