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Treading Water (also titled The Boy Who Smells Like Fish) [3] is a 2013 Mexican-Canadian [1] [2] comedy-drama film directed by Analeine Cal y Mayor and starring Douglas Smith and Zoë Kravitz. It is Cal y Mayor's feature directorial debut.
Douglas Smith plays Mica, who enters this world smelling of fish (the doctor in the delivery room scrunches up his nose as he hands the baby to the mother). Mica's parents are played by Ariadna Gil and Don McKellar ("Slings and Arrows" fans will remember his turn as the ridiculously pretentious guest-director Darren Nichols.)
The Boy Who Smells Like Fish. A mysterious woman offers hope to an isolated youth (Douglas Smith) who lives in a museum and suffers from a strange medical condition that causes his body to give...
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Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one will be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.
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An engagingly quirky left-field comedy drama, the episodic The Boy Who Smells Of Fish is a gentle charmer punctuated with a series of nicely judged performance and an increasing sense of...
In this quirky and endearing comedy-drama, a woman offers hope to a boy who inexplicably smells like fish and lives in a museum devoted to famed Mexican crooner Guillermo Garibai.