Book of Henry, The

After a brilliant, precocious 12-year-old student (Jacob Tremblay), who lives with his single, waitress mother (Naomi Watts) and 8-year-old brother (Jaeden Lieberher) in New York, develops a deadly brain tumor in this captivating, disturbing, well-acted, star-studded (Lee Pace, Sarah Silverman, Bobby Moynihan, and Geraldine Hughes), 105-minute film based on Gregg Hurwitz's novel, he leaves point-by-point instructions in a red journal and on a tape recorder for his mother so that she can help the depressed next door neighbor girl (Maddie Ziegle) who is being sexually abused by her untouchable, well-respected police commissioner stepfather (Dean Norris).
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