Struck by Lightning
(2012)
Directed by Brian
Dannelly this film stars it's writer Chris Colfer alongside Allison
Janney, Rebel Wilson and Christina Hendricks. Wishing to leave his
small town and become a journalist a high school boy blackmails
classmates into helping him write a literary magazine.
Most of the plot of
this film is your fairly standard coming of age stuff and a lot of
the characters are also genre clichés. Where the film is weak is
that the more interesting family elements of the story are relegated
to a sub plot in favour of the usual high school rubbish. Mostly the
film is well made but I am not sure that killing the protagonist
(revealed in the opening scene) adds much to the story or it's
resolution.
3/5
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