オレゴン州に住むジョーの息子・ジェイディンは、ゲイであることを公表したため高校でひどいいじめに遭っていた。そこでジョーはいじめがいかに人を傷つけるのかを訴えるため、オレゴン州からニューヨークまで歩いて大陸を横断する旅に出る。
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製作費: $3,500,000 (5億円)
興行収入: $1,700,000 (3億円)
推定収支: $-1,800,000 (-3億円)
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脚本: ラリー・マクマートリー / ダイアナ・オサナ
音楽: アントニオ・ピント
制作: Daniela Taplin Lundberg / キャリー・フクナガ / Eva Maria Daniels
撮影監督: Jacques Jouffret
制作会社: Nine Stories Productions / Argent Pictures / Endeavor Content / Parliament of Owls / Rhea Films / Stay Gold Features / VisionChaos Productions / Closest to the Hole Productions / Hercules Film Fund / Leverage Entertainment
Reid Miller is quite engaging here as the bullied gay youngster Jadin Bell. His time at school is torrid, and he seems unable to secure any help to protect him from the bigoted assholes he must face each day. His father (Mark Wahlberg) is supportive, but in a 'don't ask don't tell" sort of fashion, the appalling position also taken by the principal at his school. Eventually, the pressure all just proves too much and the young man takes his own life. This inspires his father to try to walk from their home to New York raising the issues of homophobia and bullying as he goes. Wahlberg's name is what will do the work here; his participation in highlighting these issues of both physical and psychological intimidation ought to resound with whomever watches this, reads about it, or sees any of his publicity blurb. As a piece of cinema, though, it's pretty mediocre. Barring a scene with the two leads doing a bit of a Lady Gaga routine, the drama and the acting are fairly sterile and it takes recourse to a few handsome, but cop-out, power ballads when the script runs out of anything meaningful to say. It's a shocking testament that this still goes on in 2022 in a nation that purports to be civilised - and though this film, in itself, is largely forgettable, let's hope the message isn't.
