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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)

[13 March 2008]

by Rachel Kipp

Marla is the most abstract part of the story; a girl with no motive caught in a web of adults who are full of them.

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