''Crutch'' is a 2004

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film written and directed by Rob Moretti.

Synopsis

16-year-old David seems to have a normal middle-class life in the suburban world outside New York City. When David's father leaves his alcoholic wife after 17 years, David is forced to become parent to his siblings and caregiver to his alcoholic mother. Theater coach Kenny becomes enamored of David. Overwhelmed by his home situation, David is weakened and falls prey to Kenny's advances, which leads to his own involvement with drugs and alcohol.

Cast

*Eben Gordon as David Graham *Rob Moretti as Kenny Griffith *Juanita Walsh as Katie Graham *Jennifer Laine Williams as Julia *Jennifer Katz as Maryann *James A. Earley as Jack Graham *Robert Bray as Michael Graham *Laura O'Reilly as Lisa Graham *Tim Loftus as Zack *Sylvia Norman as Linda *

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as Jerry *Tia Dionne Hodge as Janice

Critical response

Anita Gates of ''

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'' wrote: "'Crutch' doesn't have the texture or power of ''

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'', Karen Moncrieff's 2002 film with Agnes Bruckner as the neglected, emotionally needy teenager and David Strathairn as the high school poetry teacher who takes advantage ... tdoes sound a note of real anguish, however." Don Willmott of Filmcritic.com wrote, "'Crutch' comes across as an extremely personal exorcism of Moretti's suburban gothic adolescence, for better and for worse. Like the scribblings in a teenager's diary, the film vacillates between insight and exaggeration". ''Movies Online'' opined ''Crutch'' "is a captivating and brutally honest look into love, loss, lies and our own dark secrets". In a negative review,

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opined that "Rob Moretti's ''Crutch'' is the kind of film I feel bad for not liking. It's awfully sincere, and, darn it, everyone involved tries real hard, but the movie still comes up short".

References

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