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Blurb: Athletic 12-year-old Maddy shares an enthusiasm for mountain climbing with her father, Tom. Unfortunately, Tom suffers a spinal injury while scaling Mount Everest, and his family is unable to afford the surgery that could save him. Maddy decides to get the money for her father's operation by robbing a high-security bank. She'll have to rely on her climbing skills and help from her friends to pull it off.

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February 11, 2022

When I was sixteen, I got meningitis, got admitted to hospital, dropped out of music school, and started obsessing about film. I also, not-really-legally, dropped out of math classes in my secondary-school's last grade and spent them in the library, catching up on monthly issues of a semi-professional film magazine. I also developed a real-life crush on my best friend, going fully gay in my head and slowly weighing on the possible consequences of the move. And then I countered it with the first glimmer of infatuation with Julianne Moore, whom I recognized from secondary roles in Benny & Joon, Short Cuts, Nine Months, and Assassins. The most fascinating part of this crush was that I knew that the most interesting films with Moore, especially Safe and Vanya on the 42nd Street, were inaccessible (I lived in Poland's north-east provincial town). I remember reading an article about the latter two, which also mentioned Roommates, an unfunny comedy starring Peter Falk. Moore acted a lot, and quite a lot in films that were unavailable. One of them was The Myth of Fingerprints, the first of a few films by Moore's husband, who here proves that he sucks at directing. It's a shame, given that the cast is great and, with a more nuanced script, could be a tour de force.

Colin Firth, Livia Firth and Bart Freundlich attend a screening of “After The Wedding” during the Sundance Film Festival 2019: London at the Picturehouse Central on June 02, 2019 in London, England. (Photo credits GettyImages/WireImage)

Bart Freundlich, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup, Abby Quinn & Alex Esola attend Chopard And The Cinema Society Host A Special Screening Of Sony Pictures Classics' "After The Wedding" at Regal Essex Crossing on August 6, 2019 in New York City.