Movies about misfit fat kids are a tough sell. The surprise of Azazel Jacobs’ Terri is that it sets up all the usual traps of the genre and then sidesteps them neatly. This is a modest film that doesn’t reach too high, instead spreading out in some interesting ways, exploring what it means to be a reasonably emotionally secure person when everyone around you is busy projecting their own insecurity onto you.
The movie’s title character, a young high-schooler in a small town played by Jacob Wysocki, may be slightly insecure: What teenager isn’t? But he’s not the depressive loser that the people around him, from his uncle and guardian James (Creed Bratton, of The Office) to the vice-principal of his school, Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly), assume he is. Uncle James has some sort of serious, undefined health problem that makes it difficult for him to get through an average day. Terri, whose own parents are nowhere on the scene, lives with and looks after him — the duo’s repertoire of meals appears to consist of steak and beans on toast. James comes up with plenty of chores for Terri to do, including setting traps for the mice who’ve taken up residence in the attic of the cluttered, somewhat run-down cabin where the two live. Yet he feels compelled to remind Terri repeatedly how easy he has it. “You live a prince’s life, you know that,” he tells the kid, who responds with barely a blink.
Terri does live something of a prince’s life, but only because of his innate princeliness.…
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