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...small-town Arkansas headquarters. Its logistics and distribution system is smart enough to know which ethnicities of Barbie sell better in which stores. It pioneered the “big box” format and continues to extend it with bigger and better stores and different brands like Sam??s Club...
...advice. Dawson’s shortcomings—he has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old—are played for laughs at the movie’s onset (he fastens Lucy’s diaper with large pin-on buttons), but it soon becomes evident that Sam??s mental incapacity threatens Lucy’s development. Social Services intervene and put Lucy into foster care on Lucy’s seventh birthday...
This may seem like a lot for a first-time director to juggle—it is. The first act has an unsure, all-over-the-map feel about it. It tries to strike a balance between comedy, pathos and the harsh reality of Sam??s condition, but these tones frequently conflict; the pairing of hand-held camera footage with mellow string passages in the score seems particularly incongruous...