Earnestness doesn't fully excuse the low-key schmaltz peddled by Life Inside Out, the type of indie that your mother might politely describe as "touching" if she could manage to stay awake for its entirety. Produced partly thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, and co-written by star Maggie Baird, director Jill D'Agnenica's modest film details the efforts of Laura (Baird) to manage a busy household in which her husband and two older sons spend most of their time berating and/or neglecting youngest kid Shane (Finneas O'Connell), whose plight is the result of his perpetually morose attitude. O'Connell embodies Shane with bland troubled-teen dourness, though his character's mood slowly changes once Laura — who doesn't get much satisfaction from hanging out with a ...
- 1/14/2015
- Village Voice
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