A precocious teenage genius is suddenly forced to adapt to the real world, while the real world around him is having some growing pains of its own in this independent comedy drama from Canada. Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber) is an exceptionally talented and intelligent 13-year-old who has been raised and educated by his free-thinking parents ,Rog (Robert Joy) and Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins). While Emerson is clever, witty, and has recently written his first novel, he doesn't seem to have very good socialization skills when he ...
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A precocious teenage genius is suddenly forced to adapt to the real world, while the real world around him is having some growing pains of its own in this independent comedy drama from Canada. Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber) is an exceptionally talented and intelligent 13-year-old who has been raised and educated by his free-thinking parents ,Rog (Robert Joy) and Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins). While Emerson is clever, witty, and has recently written his first novel, he doesn't seem to have very good socialization skills when he spends time with others, and as he enters adolescence, Rog and Kaya decide to enroll him in public school so he can learn how to function with others (as well as patching up some gaps in his education). While most of Emerson's teachers are happy to have him in class, his ambiguous sexuality and tart intellectualism make him an immediate target for bullies in his small Nova Scotia town. Emerson's English teacher, Don Grant (Daniel MacIvor), has a bigger problem than most with his new student -- Emerson becomes quite infatuated with Don, and isn't at all shy about expressing his attraction, while the closeted Don is torn between a desire to return his advances and the knowledge that he'd be throwing away his career in education if he even acknowledged them. Whole New Thing received its world premier at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival. Mark Deming, Rovi
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One of the few really accurate and heartfelt "coming of age" films, "A Whole New Thing" is no small accomplishment.
A reverse on the old parents know best cliche, eleven year old Edison is the wise, virtuous and intelligent "puer" figure (i.e. "wise neophyte"), who stands up to bullies, challenges humbug, tolerates parental malfeasance, and wins us over without chirpiness, nor pre-adolescent glumness, but with his winsome use of the English language and patience with his elders and his clueless contemporaries.
In a particular couple of off-beat scenes, he vanquishes a band of bullies who taunt him for being gay, by grabbng the pretty girl they are too timid to approach, passionately embracing and kissing her fervently. "How did you get her to do that/" one of the gaggle gasps. "Nothing" smirks Edison.
The appeal of the pineforest settings, the minor characters, the the shock denoument,
combine to make this film the ultimate "sleeper", which died a misterious death in cinemas.
