My Kid Could Paint That

Director: Amir Bar-Lev

Cast: Mark Olmstead, Laura Olmstead, Marla Olmstead, Anthony Brunelli, Elizabeth Cohen, Michael Kimmelman

(Sony Pictures Classics, 2007) Rated: PG-13

US DVD release date: 4 March 2008 (Sony)

[10 October 2007]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Put On

My Kid Could Paint That asks viewers to ponder how certainty and doubt reinforce one another, how the need for truth creates its own truth.

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