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Things That Hang From Trees / Ido Mizrahy USA, 2006, 98 MIN Twenty-four-year-old Ido Mizrahy’s haunting debut film, based on Aaron Louis Tordini’s novella, is set in 1969 in a St. Augustine, Florida, neighborhood that has seen better days. But since the story is imaginatively situated in Southern Gothic territory somewhere between hope and desire, those days could be anywhere a live oak tree sends out its branches to engulf or devour. Eight-year-old Tommy is a frail boy, an object of scorn among the boy bullies but protected by his sexy and melancholy mother (Deborah Kara Unger) and an oddball assortment of town renegades and misfits. Inured to misfortune and with dreams of his own, Tommy learns to navigate these unruly waters in his own ingenious way. Ido Mizrahy moved to New York from Tel Aviv four years ago, where he had begun his acting career at the age of ten on stage at the Israeli National Theatre. In New York he worked extensively in theater and is currently an associate director for The Shakespeare Workshop. Things That Hang From Trees is his first feature film.

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