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5 Stories, Pulled Out of a Box

“I wish I had friends,” laments 11-year-old Toe Thompson (Jimmy Bennett), a picked-on kid with a mouth full of metal and a ZIP code full of weirdos. Toe’s lack of companionship, however, has less to do with his orthodontist than with the peculiarities of his suburban neighborhood: the ominously named Black Falls, home to Black Box Industries and locus of excessive looniness.
Structured as five short stories connected by Toe’s irksome narration, “Shorts” surges forward and rewinds, pauses and skips around as if controlled by a remote-wielding toddler. [...]

di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (3309 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 agosto 2009