Film Review – Call Me Brother

It’s hard to believe “Napoleon Dynamite” came out 16 years ago, offering a quirky take on outcast glory, sold with suffocating idiosyncrasy, which helped the feature dominate pop culture conversations for the rest of the year. Writer/star Christina Parrish and director David Howe hope to bathe in the same murky waters of peculiarity and emphasis with “Call Me Brother,” which plays like a tribute to the inexplicably beloved Jared Hess picture, delivering a short amount of time with very odd people as they struggle with basic human behaviors. Parrish gives the material considerably more sexuality, enjoying the awkwardness of teenage lust, but she doesn’t do much else with the effort, which isn’t big on story and can’t decide if it wants to be funny or disturbing, often electing to be both at the same time, which isn’t a good idea for such a thinly conceived endeavor. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com