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"Five stars! Achingly humane. Deeply moving. The cumulative effect is heart-rending." -The Guardian

"Quietly devastating. Had me wiping away my own tears." -David Edelstein, New York

"Sublime. A film as fleeting as a summer afternoon, and as pregnant with possibilities. A testament to Sachs's powers of observation." –Matt Brennan, Slant

When 13-year-old Jake's (Theo Taplitz) grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's old Brooklyn home. There, Jake befriends the charismatic Tony (Michael Barbieri), whose single mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia), a dressmaker from Chile, runs the shop downstairs. Soon, Jake's parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) -- one, a struggling actor, the other, a psychotherapist -- ask Leonor to sign a new, steeper lease on her store. For Leonor, the proposed new rent is untenable, and a feud ignites between the adults.

At first, Jake and Tony don't seem to notice; the two boys, so different on the surface, begin to develop a formative kinship as they discover the pleasures of being young in Brooklyn. Jake aspires to be an artist, while Tony wants to be an actor, and they have dreams of going to the same prestigious arts high school together. But the children can't avoid the problems of their parents forever, and soon enough, the adult conflict intrudes upon the borders of their friendship.

Taplitz and Barbieri are terrific in their feature film debuts; as Ben Dickinson notes in his review for Elle, the "two young actors lift this perfectly balanced drama into sublime territory."