Storyline

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.—Ivana Redwine

Plot Keywords

teenage boy, reminiscence, mother son relationship, melancholy, hallucination, dysfunctional family, child's point of view, abusive father, small town, religion, hypocrisy, coming of age, based on novel, singer, teen angst, 1940s, british renaissance, georgia, three word title, told in flashback

Short Review

There are many such fleeting poetic moments in The Neon Bible--moments so ecstatic that you may feel yourself rising off your seat. If much of the rest of the movie tends to be clunky as narrative, that's a small price to pay for pieces of enlightenment.

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