Movies Starring Reece Thompson
Total movies found: 7, viewing from 1 to 7
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Daydream Nation
[ 2010, Canada ] starting from $1.99Actors: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas, Andie MacDowell, Rachel Blanchard, Natasha Calis, Quinn Lord, Calum Worthy, Katie Boland, Genevieve Buechner, Luke Camilleri, Michelle Creber, Lauren Dela Pena, Cole Heppell, Patricia Isaac, Laura Jacobs, Landon Liboiron, Scott E. Miller, William J. Phillips, Jesse Reid, Ian Robison, Connor Stanhope, Sean Tyson, Ted Whittall, Nadine Wright
Directors: Michael Goldbach
Only seventeen years old, Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved from the city to a tiny, nowhere town where the major tourist attraction is an industrial fire that seems destined to burn forever. Everyone under the age of nineteen is permanently stoned. Concocting new ways of getting high is a major hobby for most of Caroline’s classmates, including the lovelorn Thurston (Reece Thompson), who falls for Caroline the minute he lays eyes on her, although she’s more interested in someone else. And then there’s the minor inconvenience of a killer running around the neighborhood. Visually arresting, slyly funny and boasting its share of chills, Daydream Nation is a smart debut from Mike Goldbach (who co-wrote Don McKellar’s Childstar). An astute and frequently comic account of adolescent confusion and angst, the film exposes the wide rift between the adult and the adolescent worlds. No parent really knows how out of control their children are, but the adults in this world don’t seem to possess any more maturity than their juniors. Daydream Nation is driven by a stellar performance by Dennings as a girl who’s too smart to get sucked into teenaged melodrama, but has only a tenuous hold on her temper. The film is propelled by Caroline’s voice-over, a potent mix of sarcasm, naïveté and confusion. Dennings is supported by a magnificent cast which includes Josh Lucas, Ted Whittall, Katie Boland, Rachel Blanchard and Andie MacDowell as Thurston’s overwhelmed but sharp single mother. Goldbach subtly and effectively overlays genres here; initially, the film is an exposé of adolescent life, using suspense elements to invest the characters’ dilemmas with gravitas. The principal characters may be young, but their decisions are fateful. Daydream Nation announces the presence of a skilful and exciting new voice on the Canadian film scene.
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Ceremony
[ 2010, USA ] starting from $1.99Genres: Comedy
Actors: Uma Thurman, Lee Pace, Michael Angarano, Rebecca Mader, Jake M. Johnson, Reece Thompson, Brooke Bloom, Nathalie Love, Harper Dill, Joe Dolinsky, Oscar J. Castillo, David Boston
Directors: Max Winkler
A perpetual adolescent stumbling through his 20s with inflated self-confidence, Sam (Michael Angarano) clings to the naive notions of love and romance that he immortalizes in a series of unpublished children’s books. With his sensitive, sycophantic best friend Marshall (Reece Thompson) in tow, he heads to the Hamptons to make a last-ditch effort to woo the object of his infatuation. Thirty-something publisher Zoe (Uma Thurman) is about to marry Whit (Lee Pace), a self-important documentary filmmaker who’s an outrageous cross between Jacques Costeau and “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. Sam refuses to accept that anyone else could be the love of Zoe’s life and, dressed to the nines in a crumpled burgundy suit, crashes Zoe and Whit’s wedding reception, determined to prove his point. Like its lead character, "Ceremony" is dressed for laughs, clothed in all the finery common to romantic comedies: geeky best friends crashing a party in search of revelatory adventure; an egotistical buffoon as the lead character’s romantic competition; a younger sibling ("Paper Heart"’s Jake M. Johnson – heartfelt and hilarious in every scene) who’s satisfied being a loser since the role of overachiever has already been taken; and of course, a lovelorn lad who clings to his romantic delusions until they blow up in his face. Yet the heart of the film is deep, complex and ultimately more serious than its initial trappings may suggest. Showing startling maturity for a first-time writer-director, Max Winkler is less concerned with easy laughs and poppy punchlines than with peeling back the layers of his characters’ insecurities, revealing the damaged heart beating beneath the surface and the wounded ego that struggles to gain attention. Is Sam searching for true love or for unconditional acceptance from a mother figure? When we engage in the ceremonies of courtship, are we following our hearts or being led astray by our desires? Drawing seamlessly upon these themes while eliciting pitch-perfect performances from a terrific cast, Winkler announces himself as a talented director capable of plumbing the depths of human relationships.
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