A somewhat distracting style (fast editing, lack of long takes, in-out camera). Sean Penn is excellent as the mentally challenged father of Dakota Fanning. Nelson and her friend Kristine Johnson has trouble getting it funded with Penn, whose first 'sweet' role the studios had difficulty accepting. Nelson says now she wouldn't have made it without an actual mentally challenged person in the lead, but recognises the small triumph she did achieve in casting some of the supporting roles from the community.
This twenty minute interview by Charlie Rose doesn't mention Dakota Fanning once. I was wondering about the relationship between Sean and her - did he in effect direct her? In her own words she says he taught her to ad lib - to not follow the screenplay, and they did that a lot. It was her first film.
The editor is Richard Chew (The New World, Cuckoo's Nest), Eliot Davis is on camera and tends to overdo his blues:
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| The size of this dog in comparison to Dakota made me laugh |
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