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In New Bedford Massachusetts, a dysfunctional family portrayed in all shades of black-and-white, lead forgotten lives. One eventful summer, in an act of liberation, the kids Billie and Nico set off on their own adventure into the fantastic and poetic world of childhood, unseen by the adults around them.From acclaimed director Alexandre Rockwell (In The Soup,Little Feet),Sweet Thing is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience.SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY CONTAINS1080p presentation on Blu-ray DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio Optional English subtitlesPLUS: A LIMITED EDITION Collectors Booklet featuring an essay on the film by film writer Jason Wood [First Print Run ONLY] PRESS???? This small, delicate, late-blooming film is quite lovely, and a throwback to the 1990s/2000s craze for semi-improvised, rough and ready indie film-making. The Guardian???? a charming, uplifting fable Irish Times???? wonderful fairy-tale-like coming-of-age story about the misadventures of a couple of latchkey siblings. ScotsmanA lively, bittersweet meditation on an impoverished childhood that is rich in innocence and imagination-Variety”Alexandre RockwellsSweet Thingisone of the most powerful new films Ive seen in years. The whole film has soul, but the fact that Rockwell didnt go the easy way and shoot it on digital, but instead (like a real filmmaker) shot it on black and white 16mm film makes it a divine soul. But its the performance of his young leading lady Lana Rockwell that haunts you when the movie is over. Like the way she carries her dignity in her shoulders as she precariously manoeuvres herself through the gruelling tribulations that is her life, is how she carries both the film and the viewer through Rockwells terrain.”-Quentin Tarantino