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Being Flynn
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Terrific dialogue and superb acting highlight this well-written, realistic, engaging, somber, star-studded (Lili Taylor, Wes Studi, and Olivia Thirlby) film, which is adapted from Nick Flynn's memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, about an aimless, wannabe poet and writer (Paul Dano) who reconnects with his alcoholic, writing-obsessed, eccentric, taxi driver father (Robert DeNiro) when his estranged, disheveled father walks into the Boston homeless shelter at which he is working and experiences flashbacks of being raised by his stressed-out, overworked mother (Julianne Moore) who worked as a bank teller and as a waitress to support him while his dad was in prison for securities fraud and for forging checks.

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2012
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 R
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