Visually anyone with a basic understanding of the rule of thirds can make their movie look like an Anderson piece, simply frame all your characters dead center so it appears they're looking straight at the audience. Plot wise you just need a bunch of dysfunctional characters, usually related, who come together at the end in acceptance of each other. His has become the go to style for American indie film-makers, possibly because it's such a simple formula and so easily imitated. Spevack is a kid with the second highest ever recorded IQ who tracks down Sheen, his sperm donor father. A subplot, yes, which is not the same thing, as the secondary tale of the O'Hara's threatens to overwhelm Henry's central story at times.
As a father, he currently has a less than favorable record as he has written a book outing his 12-year old daughter Audrey(Samantha Weinstein) as a lesbian, making her life a living hell.Īs far as it goes, "Jesus Henry Christ" is not half bad in its execution and threatens to have something interesting to say about science occasionally while recyclying the old cliche about not being able to choose one's family. Slavkin O'Hara(Michael Sheen), a university professor, made a deposit more than a decade earlier. Henry's search leads to a sperm bank where Dr. That lack of information is especially urgent considering apparently the only living family he has is his mother(Toni Collette) and his grandfather Stan(Frank Moore), a retired Chicago policeman. In "Jesus Henry Christ," 10-year old Henry(Jason Spevack) may already remember everything that he has ever encountered and happened to him but still no idea who his father is.