Mom is an adult child nicknamed “Precious,” full of love and eager to paint pictures of their happy “family.” But she can’t take care of herself, much less a child. It,” a wan odyssey about disabilities, special abilities, looking for your history and changing your future by taking that one big risk.ĭirector Stephen Gyllenhaal (“Losing Isiah”), father of actors Maggie and Jake, returns to subjects similar to his disabled Debra Winger drama, “A Dangerous Woman” in adapting (with screenwriter Garry Williams) Sarah Weeks’ novel. Which is why Heidi makes her escape - 12 years old and riding the bus from Reno to mysterious Liberty, New York in “So B. The woman who looks after them both, Bernadette, may know something. She’s so developmentally disabled that her entire vocabulary is 22 words - one of them, her daughter’s name - Heidi. But she (Jessica Collins) cannot tell her. That’s a skill even a tween can use in Reno, Nevada. She’s just a near-savant at guessing numbers, cards, the right slot machine to toss a quarter into. “I’m not psychic,” our young narrator reassures us.
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