Palmer

[Available Jan. 29 on Apple TV+ only.] Terrific acting highlights Fisher Stevens' poignant, engaging, realistic, moving, down-to-earth, star-dotted (Jesse C. Boyd, J. D. Evermore, Wynn Everett, Stephen Louis Grush, and Jake Brennan), 110-minute film in which a former high school football star (Justin Timberlake) is released from prison after serving twelve years for robbery and felony assault, returns to his hometown in Louisiana to live with his religious grandmother (June Squibb) who raised him, lands a job as a janitor at an elementary school, and eventually cares for a bullied, 7-year-old, fairy-loving, next door neighbor student (Ryder Allen) with the help of a smitten schoolteacher (Alisha Wainwright) after his drug-addicted mother (Juno Temple) and abusive boyfriend (Dean Winters) run off.
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