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PARABLE · Film

THE KID

A fifty-year-old autistic man is admitted to a prestigious New York arts school. His mother dies on a Tuesday. He goes home and starts drawing on taco wrappers.

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Notes from the Studio

Why this project belongs here.

THE KID is about vocation arriving late and grief arriving on schedule.

Its tenderness comes from refusing to treat dignity as uplift. Talent is not a twist. It is a discipline waiting for room.

Credits

Benny Locke, Rae Min, Holland Pierce

Written by Frank Cosenza and Lea Bloom.