In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.

The Thing with Feathers
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6.6/10

Off the Map
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6.4/10

Goodbye June
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6.6/10

Requiem for a Dream
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8.0/10

The Shack
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7.5/10

Birth
2004
6.0/10

Smooth Talk
1985
6.2/10

All Together Now
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6.7/10

Dad
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6.4/10

The Hours
2002
7.3/10

Mothers' Instinct
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6.9/10

Donovan's Echo
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6.0/10

Tigertail
2020
6.7/10

Premonition
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6.3/10

Rabbit Hole
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6.6/10

Dear Zoe
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6.5/10

Strange Weather
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5.8/10

Not Without Hope
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6.2/10

The Girl in the Book
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5.8/10

The Glass House
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6.0/10
Over the Edge
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7.105/10