Best and Most Beautiful Things

December. 02,2016      
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Off a dirt road in rural Maine, a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith lives with her mother Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Searching for connection, Michelle explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative fringe community. Will she take the leap to experience the wide world for herself? Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery celebrates outcasts everywhere.

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Reviews

Solemplex
2016/12/02

To me, this movie is perfection.

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BootDigest
2016/12/03

Such a frustrating disappointment

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VeteranLight
2016/12/04

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Afouotos
2016/12/05

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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