{"id":622397,"date":"2024-05-30T03:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-bobby-cannavale-as-a-dad-who-kidnaps-his-autistic-son\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T03:32:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:32:40","slug":"watch-bobby-cannavale-as-a-dad-who-kidnaps-his-autistic-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-bobby-cannavale-as-a-dad-who-kidnaps-his-autistic-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bobby Cannavale as a Dad Who Kidnaps His Autistic Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cedc19071c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cedc19071c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-bobby-cannavale-as-a-dad-who-kidnaps-his-autistic-son\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Bobby_Cannavale_as_a_Dad_Who_Kidnaps_His_Autistic_Son%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Bobby Cannavale as a Dad Who Kidnaps His Autistic Son&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-bobby-cannavale-as-a-dad-who-kidnaps-his-autistic-son\/#%E2%80%9CBobby_Cannavale_as_a_Dad_Who_Kidnaps_His_Autistic_Son%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Bobby Cannavale as a Dad Who Kidnaps His Autistic Son&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Bobby_Cannavale_as_a_Dad_Who_Kidnaps_His_Autistic_Son%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Bobby Cannavale as a Dad Who Kidnaps His Autistic Son&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBobby_Cannavale_as_a_Dad_Who_Kidnaps_His_Autistic_Son%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Bobby Cannavale as a Dad Who Kidnaps His Autistic Son&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Sometimes, one of the shrewdest things a movie can do is to have its hero act in a way that\u2019s not heroic or admirable or even very likable. In \u201cEzra,\u201d Max Bernal (Bobby Cannavale), a stand-up co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n with a chip on his shoulder (he used to write for late night; now he performs edgy sets in places like the Comedy Cellar), is in a state of confused fury over what to do about his son, Ezra (William A. Fitzgerald), an owlish 11-year-old who\u2019s autistic. Ezra attends public school in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he acts out, gets bullied, and responds to people on his own brainy but disconnected wavelength. His autistic behaviors aren\u2019t particularly severe. He speaks in arcane pop-culture quotes, he\u2019s scared that metal silverware will hurt his mouth, and he refuses to look you in the eye or allow himself to be hugged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    More and more, though, he\u2019s failing to fit in. The administrators are recommending that he be transferred to a school for special-needs students. Max, seated in the principal\u2019s office along with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Jenna (Rose Byrne), doesn\u2019t want to hear about it. He accuses the physician who would like to put Ezra on Risperdal of being a \u201cdrug dealer,\u201d and when the doctor responds by saying that it\u2019s clear where Ezra gets his difficult temperament from, Max assaults him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And that\u2019s the least of his bad decisions. Sl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed with a restraining order, which forbids him from seeing his son for three months, Max sneaks into Jenna\u2019s house in the middle of the night and kidnaps Ezra, taking him on an impromptu road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Michigan. When the plan\u00a0\u2014 not that it\u2019s a plan, more of a desperation move from hell \u2014 is discovered, everyone from Jenna to Max\u2019s crusty hellion of a father (Robert De Niro), whose home he\u2019s been staying at, thinks what he\u2019s doing is insane. And the audience isn\u2019t given much of a reason to disagree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But what we do see, full-on, is where Max is coming from. He\u2019s a selfish hothead, with demons of his own, but he\u2019s in a rage over something specific and timely: the educational\/bureaucratic\/pharmaceutical culture that\u2019s obsessed with \u201csafety\u201d \u2014\u00a0with enforcing a matrix of rules and regulations that increasingly dictate what a parent like Max can and cannot do. Max feels like his authority, and maybe even his connection to his son, is being taken away. What\u2019s more, as someone who\u2019s self-righteous about his own feelings of outsider-ness, he thinks it\u2019s vital that Ezra not be ostracized for his autism. Max believes that his son should be in the stream of things, surrounded by \u201cnormal\u201d kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There are a lot of issues to debate here (some are culture-war issues), and it\u2019s to the credit of Tony Goldwyn, the director of \u201cEzra,\u201d and the screenwriter, Tony Spiridakis, that the movie doesn\u2019t approach those issues with a chip on <em>its<\/em> shoulder. It\u2019s not saying that Max is right or Max is wrong. It\u2019s saying that when you have a special-needs child, these sorts of feelings might rise up in you, and the fact that Max cultivates them into a decision that seems like a disaster is what seizes our interest. The burden of proof is now on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bobby Cannavale is the kind of actor who can do \u201cmouthy hothead\u201d in his sleep, but in \u201cEzra\u201d he gives a canny and layered performance. Max, with his burning eyes (in his standup act, he cultivates the aura of an assassin), looks out and sees a world of full of Karens, like the nightclub owner who tells him he shouldn\u2019t be plopping his kid on a barstool to watch his midnight set (something she\u2019s probably right about). And he keeps lashing out at them. But what\u2019s driving him is the tangle of agony he feels at everything about his son: the fact of his autism, the impossibility of knowing how to make him feel more well-adjusted, and his frustration at dealing with an institutionalized system that\u2019s far from perfect \u2014 though when have our society\u2019s public education protocols ever been perfect? (And how could they be?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As the film sees it, there\u2019s no \u201cright answer,\u201d but the answer that Max has come up with is a trigger reaction from the heart and the gut: He needs to be with his son. Not just to exist with him but to <em>be<\/em> with him. The movie is about Max and Ezra figuring out what that is, and newcomer William A. Fitzgerald, with his shy gopher grin, gives a performance that\u2019s alive with discovery. He shows you Ezra\u2019s blinkered reactions, the savant-like overawareness that shines through them, and the soul of affection that\u2019s buried beneath them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I wish I could say that these two found redemption in an awesomely organic and spontaneous way. But where a film like \u201cRain Man,\u201d while a big studio blockbuster, presented the interaction between Dustin Hoffman\u2019s gnarled, solipsistic, numbers-fixated Raymond and Tom Cruise\u2019s smooth yuppie Charlie as a slow-growing exploration of human connection, the plot of \u201cEzra\u201d is actually far more dependent on Hollywood devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Out in rural Michigan, Ezra learns to look a horse in the eye, to use silverware, and to hug a friend. Meanwhile, Max\u2019s estranged wife and father are after him, caught in their own miniature discordant road movie. Byrne\u2019s Jenna is all traumatized common sense, and De Niro plays Stan, a former chef who chased Max\u2019s mother away, as (surprise) a hard-ass who\u2019s too 1950s to want to talk about autism. But when he finally catches up with Max, he gives a big speech \u2014 an apology for his whole life \u2014 that demonstrates how much he\u2019s learned. De Niro delivers it so well that you roll with it, and maybe even shed a tear, even as you think, \u201cThat\u2019s a little too easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    They\u2019re all headed to Los Angeles and \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!,\u201d which has booked Max for a spot (after Jimmy saw a tape of Max having a meltdown over Ezra in the middle of a set). The film itself seems to be heading for a hearttugger of an ending, and it is, though not the one you\u2019re expecting. I guess today that passes for indie integrity. But the underlying integrity of \u201cEzra,\u201d what makes it an honest film despite some formula devices, is that its message about how to help children with special needs is that there\u2019s no magic way. 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