The acting in this film is OK, however the script and the way the characters are written (in particular the kids) is not credible at all. The way the kids act, speak and also their actions throughout the movie has to make you wonder if the screen writers have ever had any interaction with children of the ages portrayed in the film ever. In addition there is little to no character development and many of the supporting cast seem little more than caricatures. At the end of the movie I have no idea of the message intended or what the director was trying to say or achieve. Without going too deeply into it; in reality it is most likely that someone like Terri would be in a living hell everyday of his childhood/school-life because of a combination of factors, not just limited to his size (his social circumstances and his apparent non-existent social skills/relative poverty/his weight/his PJ uniform) and he would definitely never get the good looking younger daughter out of Rescue Me throwing herself at him (whether she was drunk and high on some anti-alzheimer? medication or not). However this is just one of the many flaws in this movie. I can only give this film 4 out of 10 and that would be for the performances of the young actors alone. They did OK with some pretty poor material.
Review of Terri
Terri
(2011)
OK performances hampered by preposterous writing and Inconceivable actions...
17 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers