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Boy's Gone, The

[Played as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] After the tragic loss of their rebellious, pot-smoking, disrespectful, smartalick, teenage son (Noah Odegaard) in Sarah Polhaus' touching, heartbreaking, realistic, well-acted, unexpected, 16-minute film with several interpretations, a marriage struggles to remain intact while strained by a couples' different approaches to grieving as the desperate mother (Lisa Roumain-Smith) attends a grief support group and tries to hold on to the all too painful evidence of her child's existence and the account manager father (David Rees Snell) finds such evidence to be an all too painful reminder of his loss and tries to give away all his son's belongings to benefit others; the viewer is left wondering the fate of the marriage and whether and what positive actions might be available to stop the implosion.
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