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'Catch,' a.k.a. Earnest Goes to High School
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Bruce is a smart kid at Blue Bell High School in Pennsylvania, he's 14 and awkward and has a crush on that cute girl he works with at the local diner. Now, the cool but bad kids are making a bid for him to join their clique. They tell him to "ignore" his parents! They use fake IDs to drink "brewskis"!
This is sure going to get in the way of his math and science robotics project. And how can he even concentrate with that theme music building in the background!
This is the setup for "Catch Your Mind," a very earnest film from very earnest first-time feature director and screenwriter Swamy Kandan, who appears to be self-distributing the film to a dozen or so theaters around the country. It's a teen angst story, with our young hero caught between engaging in the positive aspects of life and the seemingly fun but destructive party kids on the express train to nowhere. (Note: You may have seen this before. Many times.) The cast -- Patrick Welsh as Bruce, Megan Beale as the crush and Margaret DeAngelis as Mom -- manages to bring even more earnestness to an already earnest script.
So it's an after-school special. Actually, seems a little too paint-by-numbers even for that. It's more like a film they show you in Sunday school about the perils of bad behavior.
Catch Your Mind (90 minutes, Laurel 6 Cinema and WorldGate 9 in Herndon) is rated PG and contains adult themes, some reckless behavior, underage drinking and strong language.
