SpIFF: The Kids Grow Up
Here is a list of people who will probably cry all the way through The Kids Grow Up: mothers, fathers, pregnant women, grandparents, menopausal 50-somethings, women with PMS, college-bound teenagers, university administrators, or anyone feeling nostalgic, along with anyone who might have sensitive feelings, who is homesick or is feeling even the slightest bit sentimental. Or anyone, really, with a vagina. If you identify with any of those groups, The Kids Grow Up will jerk your tear ducts wide open.
When documentarian Doug Block’s only daughter, Lucy, was a toddler, he started filming her life. He didn’t stop until she went to college. As a child, Lucy loved the cameras. But as a teenager, she hated them.
Though you barely see Block’s face in the film, you see his love for Lucy in every frame. When she leaves for college, it breaks his heart: He’s a dead man walking. Watching The Kids Grow Up shows you just how vacant someone can feel when their nest is empty. (USA | 90 mins) Read our story about this
Sunday, February 13, 2011 | 3 pm | $10;$5


