Terri is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Azazel Jacobs and starring Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton, and John C.
Reilly">John C. Reilly. The film is about the friendship that develops between an oversized teen misfit and the garrulous but well-meaning school principal who takes an interest in him. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California.
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Directed by | Azazel Jacobs |
Screenplay by | Patrick deWitt |
Story by | Patrick deWitt Azazel Jacobs |
Produced by | Alyson Dickie Hunter Gray Lynette Howell |
Starring | Jacob Wysocki Creed Bratton John C. Reilly |
Cinematography | Tobias Datum |
Edited by | Darrin Navarro |
Music by | Mandy Hoffman |
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Distributed by | ATO Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $655,802 |
Overweight and depressed 15-year-old Terri Thompson starts to slack off in school and wear pajamas, to the chagrin of his teachers. Soon Terri is taken under the wing of unconventional assistant principal Mr. Fitzgerald, who creates a series of Monday-morning counseling sessions for social outcasts at the school.
The film was released in January 2011 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and later at the Florida, San Francisco, and Boston film festivals. Terri opened in the United States in limited release on July 1, 2011 and achieved the second highest per location average for the holiday weekend (second only to Transformers: Dark of the Moon).
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 87%, with an average rating of 7.1 out of 10, based on 98 reviews from critics. The website's "Critics Consensus" for the film reads, "Embodied with compelling sensitivity by newcomer Jacob Wysocki and supported by a wonderful John C. Reilly, Terri is an emotionally powerful character study."
A.O. Scott of the New York Times said, "What lifts Terri above its peers is not the plight of its protagonist or the film's sympathy for him, but rather the care and craft that the director, Azazel Jacobs, has brought to fairly conventional material" and Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times called it, "...impossible not to love". Roger Ebert gave the film 4 stars out of 4.
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