The movie centers on a woman (Gretchen Mol) who has ties to President Kennedy and who is suspected of harboring state sensitive secrets. The Cuban missile crisis becomes the focal point of the movie and her ex-husband and godfather of her child are CIA operatives. Against this backdrop, they inject an early puberty teen who spies on the woman who is his neighbor. The teen tries to become close to his neighbor by working on her garden. The movie was filmed in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington DC. The locale where the priest is shoved down the steps in Georgetown for the Exorcist movie also is shown in this movie. The movie has a bit of profanity, nudity, and sexuality for the R rating.
I was raised in Washington DC and was very young when President Kennedy was assassinated. I attended inner city schools in Washington. This movie appears to have a somewhat anti-parochial school message on the film on how the teen encounters bullying on the school grounds and its depiction of the nuns who teach at the school. I attended an inner city public school and it was not as rough as it was shown for a parochial school back in the 1960s in this movie.
The movie leaves one with the message that a conspiracy was behind the Kennedy Assassination and that anyone connected to him were on a "hit list". Strangely, the movie might have even carried the plot if you deleted the teen character. The movie appeared to waffle between being a "coming of age" movie and a Kennedy conspiracy movie.
I was raised in Washington DC and was very young when President Kennedy was assassinated. I attended inner city schools in Washington. This movie appears to have a somewhat anti-parochial school message on the film on how the teen encounters bullying on the school grounds and its depiction of the nuns who teach at the school. I attended an inner city public school and it was not as rough as it was shown for a parochial school back in the 1960s in this movie.
The movie leaves one with the message that a conspiracy was behind the Kennedy Assassination and that anyone connected to him were on a "hit list". Strangely, the movie might have even carried the plot if you deleted the teen character. The movie appeared to waffle between being a "coming of age" movie and a Kennedy conspiracy movie.