Marvelous and the Black Hole

[Opens April 22 in theaters.] When a grieving, traumatized, angry, depressed, stressed-out, 13-year-old student (Miya Cech), who lives with an older sister (Kannon Omachi), rebels by getting into fights at school and tattooing her leg with black Xs after the death of her mother (Jae Suh Park) and her exasperated, frustrated, well-intentioned father (Leonardo Nam), who wants to marry his girlfriend (Paulina Lule), forces her to attend business classes run by a professor (Keith Powell) at the local community college during the summer in an attempt to straighten her out and to ignite a passion in Kate Tsang's quirky, touching, low-key, coming-of-age, down-to-earth, 81-minute, 2020 comedy, a feisty, no-nonsense, children's magician (Rhea Perlman) befriends her and the relationship that develops helps her cope with her feelings and dysfunctional family and learn a little magic.
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