(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "FAR FROM THE TREE")ĪNDREW SOLOMON: I think my mother imagined that her first-born son would be part of the real mainstream, the kind of kid who was popular at school, athletic, at ease in the world and basically quite conventional. Our critic Bob Mondello calls the film a celebration of family and of difference.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: To frame six tales of what I'm going to call family dissonance, director Rachel Dretzin lets Andrew Solomon give us the why behind his writing "Far From The Tree," basically a seventh tale, his own story. He did that first in a bestselling book, "Far From The Tree," and now in a documentary based on that book. Writer Andrew Solomon looked at what happens when that challenge is heightened by children who are not what their parents expected. Even under the best of circumstances, parenting can be a challenge.
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