February 27, 2014Electrick Children was actually pretty good. It started with a young girl (Julia Garner from We Are What We Are) in a strict religious family, who listens to a tape with a cover of Blondie's Hanging On The Telephone and believes it makes her pregnant. When her mother finds her stash of unused pads, she confronts the girl and discovers she may actually be pregnant. The mother buys a pregnancy test which comes back positive. Blaming immaculate conception through the voice on the tape, the girl then sets out for Las Vegas to try to find the father. She has no idea where to begin, so she just starts looking for young guys who play guitar and sing. She meets one and awkwardly tries to convince him to marry her, but the guy just isn't interested. She also meets Rory Culkin, a strange kid with some social issues, and the two of them sort of fall in love. Based on some old stories her mother had told her, she finds a red convertible and follows it. That leads her to her real father (the guy who was also her father in We Are What We Are). Since I do recommend this movie, I'm not inclined to spoil anything, and to tell you anything else would be to spoil the ending, which was pretty strange. I'll just say it is worth seeing.
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