Sun Screen
Camera demonstrates the importance of mentors
Jay Silverman (Girl on the Edge, Off the Menu, Saving Paradise) directs this poignant story—by Irish screenwriter Jamie Murphy—about nonverbal 9-year-old Oscar (Miguel Gabriel), who after his father’s death moves to the small fishing village of Jasper’s Cove (filmed in part in Morro Bay) with his cocktail waitress mom, Evelyn (Jessica Parker Kennedy). Teased and tormented by the local kids, Oscar finds a friend and mentor in local repairman Eric (Beau Bridges), who helps Oscar learn to operate his deceased father’s beloved camera, giving the child a way to express himself despite not having a voice...
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