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- This is just a coming-of-age story, but it's personal, based on a true story, and completely realistic that the lessons are meaningful, not corny.
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As the project goes on, Andy and Stanley form a close bond. While the project is going, a rumor starts spreading around the school that Mr. Simon is a homosexual. One of the school's bullies, Jason Freel, tells his father, who goes to the school principal to ask if the rumor is true.
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This is a coming-of-age story of 12 year old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison) in 1965. He's a normal kid who's trying to survive school when Mr. Simon (Ed Harris) forces Andy with the school's biggest outcast the quiet giant red head Stanley (Alexander Walters).
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Michael Pavone
- 2011-04-29
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Human Dignity + Compassion = PEACE. That's Mr. Simon's (Ed Harris) award-winning four-word solution to world peace. Unfortunately, children are cruel, and there isn't even peace in his 1965 junior high classroom.
Apr 10, 2011 · NEW YORK – A sensitive performance from Ed Harris lends a core of quiet integrity to writer-director Mike Pavone ’s gentle coming-of-age drama, That’s What I Am. But this well-intentioned...
Message movie about tolerance has a few mature themes. Read Common Sense Media's That's What I Am review, age rating, and parents guide.
A coming-of-age story set in 1965 that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol (Chase Ellison), a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers.
