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As a child, Oscar (Michael Pitt) kills a man who molested his daughter. He runs to the big city where he meets Sway (Mark Boone Junior) who is a Fagan type with a group of child pickpockets. The movie moves to 15 years later. Oscar has replaced Sway and the girl he helped is looking for him.

The feature was semi-engaging. Oscar as an adult was not as interesting as Oscar the child.

Guide: F-word. Brief sex. Nudity (Dree Hemingway Great Granddaughter).

Good acting, by a solid cast. The movie follows Oscar, a young boy who killed an abusing father of his best friend Loux. After spending a night alone on the run from the law he meets a young street girl, Peaches.

She takes him to her "home" which is nothing more than a band of roving pickpocketers, who prey on unsuspecting citizens on the streets of Tulsa. They are helped by Sway who has a good heart for the kids, and he helps to shield them from the real evil of Bird. Bird is the the leader and mastermind to exploit these kids for his own needs of money, even murder.

The movie then flashes 15 years later to show Oscar now an adult, take his own band of misfits "The Lost Boys" under his wing to run scams and robberies.

Then we get to see Loux who has not seen Oscar since he killed her father. She takes a job with a low rent private investigator all the while searching for Oscar with help of her brother.

I found myself enthralled and anxious to see how it all played out when Loux and Oscar finally found each other again. But I was left with many questions after it ended. What happened to Loux and her brother? What did they do with the Lost Boys in the back of the van, lol? Did they rise up and get revenge on Bird?

Still the movie was pretty good, with a solid supporting cast. It shows powerful bonds of love a friendship can help even the most wayward heart. I was say give it a watch if you have an extra 90 minutes.

This film start with a girl "Loux" driving with a wounded man "Oscar" in her car, and the flashback of Oscar younger self scene! As turnout, this film is about Oscar running away from his living place, after killing Loux father! And he eventually need to leave the gang run by a crime boss "Birdie", after Loux manage to find him! Entire film full of boring conversation, and overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the walking scene, and overuse of the song playing at the background scene! Make the film unwatchable! All the shooting scene also portray at sideways! Barely intense scene is, Oscar shot a police on the head at the motel! At the end, Oscar decide to leave his gang! Peaches prevent him to leave! Oscar kill her in the process! Loux driving him away! That's it! Wasting time to watch!

It's widely panned. I see the point. I think this one's best enjoyed, and that can be done, by not thinking about it and going with it's goopy emotional interior: Boy meets Girl, Boy loses girl for 15 years, Girl searches for and finds boy, the longed for reunion occurs, Boy is shot and drops dead.

This simple business is so shrouded in a bizarre and busy plot that it's best viewed with all neocortical activity shut down. But the thing is, there are some wickedly smart bits floating around in the soup. Oscar, "O", and Peaches, become child-lovers while waiting for the "fated" reunion with Loux. They both grow into criminal androgynes. Both are crudely manipulated by their twisted, deeply jealous and covertly sadistic boss, "Birdie", who has a thing going with "Peaches", a woman he's got fifty tears on, and so wants to rip these two apart.

Then there's the bit with "Sway", Mark Boone Junior, my favorite player in this, the Faginesque character who makes open reference to Oliver Twist, as though that situation wasn't obvious enough, and who is chomping heart pills like M&M's for his arrhythmia, who finally gets his guts blown out with a 12 gauge by a manipulated Peaches, because of "His heart problems, it's too big."

A note on these obvious literary references: Dicken's, Romeo & Juliet, Frankenstein, (The Michael Pitt creation) and to me most strongly, You Can't Go Home Again, is that they are more or less obvious and awkwardly sutured together, Frankenstein stuff, in this Frankenstein of a movie.

These touches are just built in and not a big deal is made of them. So the movie is devious, just like the characters, and that interested me. The smartest bits in the movie are right out there, but so little is made of them as the main story line trudges on, little subconcious bombs, that occurred to me later. And these are actually the best parts of the movie. Then, the players chosen are an interesting crew to be sure. It's aways nice to see William Forsythe again, this time playing a strict dad. If there was ever a natural born bad guy, it's him. And it was nice to see that he's put back every pound of the weight he made such a point of losing for much of his career. He looks like himself again for the first time in 30 years.

I agree with the crowd that the movie is a mess. But....it's "shot with sugar, through and through."

It was great to see Michael Pitt again and great to see William Forsythe, however briefly. This movie has style and some very impressive, quietly seething performances. I mean, it's Michael Pitt! But oh boy, this script has problems. I actually had to watch it twice to make sense of the thing...and even though I caught up to the sequence of events on second viewing (don't leave the room for even a moment), I still came away with many questions. It seems that the writers simply didn't know how to end it. So...they didn't. It wasn't an ambiguous ending. I can handle that. It was no ending at all. And I am not in agreement with people who are bothered by how dark the storyline is. Dark is okay. Violence is okay when it serves the story. I would say that the violence in this movie was necessary and central to the plot. I just think that there must be some relevant scenes on the cutting room floor, so to speak, because I doubt that this amputated ended was the intention all along. I think maybe they just found themselves going long and made an error in judgement. I'd like to see an extended cut of this film; maybe it will be more satisfying.

The production was SOLID. I loved the locations, art direction, costume design, lighting, music and of course the performances. ALL WASTED on a half-baked script. The story wasn't bad, but give it an ending! ANY ending.

There's so much to love about this film: the cinematography is elegiac and atmospheric, and sets up such a gorgeously doomed mood. The cast is incredible - the child actors are compelling (reminded me of 'mid90s', or 'Lawn Dogs'), and Perlman, Boone Jr and Pitt are such quality character actors - this film is rich with what they provide, alongside the others I haven't seen as often. I adored the 'Oliver Twist'/'Romeo and Juliet' aspects ... in fact, there's heaps in here that's classic Shakespeare - reunification after years, the inescapability of fate, closeness despite mistaken identity, the goodness of a person that circumstances can never extinguish. It doesn't overexplain anything - it invites you in, and you get closer to the trajectories of the characters the more you read them and their motivations and rich inner lives. Loved it so much. Highly recommended.