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In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner... more | add synopsisAwards:
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A touching coming-of-age story filled with wit and irony moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Adrian Grenier | ... | Sebastian Cole | |
| Clark Gregg | ... | Hank / Henrietta Rossi | |
| Aleksa Palladino | ... | Mary | |
| Margaret Colin | ... | Joan Cole | |
| John Shea | ... | Hartley | |
| Marni Lustig | ... | Jessica Cole | |
| Joan Copeland | ... | Grandmother | |
| Tom Lacy | ... | Grandfather | |
| Gabriel Macht | ... | Troy | |
| Herbert Russell | ... | Wayne (as Russel Harper) | |
| Greg Haberny | ... | Jimmy Bogardus | |
| Peter McRobbie | ... | Principal | |
| Merritt Wever | ... | Susan | |
| Marisol Padilla Sánchez | ... | Woman In Desert | |
| Rory Cochrane | ... | Chinatown |
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Rated R for language and crude sexual references, and for some substance abuse.Parents Guide:
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Anachronisms: The movie that Sebastian and his date go to see is The Mangler (1995). But the film takes place in the mid to late-1980s and The Mangler was released in 1995. moreQuotes:
Sebastian Cole: First I have to live a little so I have something to write about.Henrietta Cole: So, for the time being, you're just going to live a little?
Sebastian Cole: No, I'm going to live a lot.
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole is a movie about Sebastian, a teenage boy who has an extremely dysfunctional family. His father is married to a South East Asian woman and is hardly ever around. His mother is married to a man named Hank. She has a partial breakdown when Hank reveals that he is going to have a sex change operation. She takes Sebastian and moves back to her homeland England. Sebastian doesn't like England so he goes back to stay with his step father Hank, who is now in the process of becoming a woman and called Henrietta. While staying with her he has many intentional adventures that he plans on using in a novel that he wants to write. These adventures include nearly drinking himself to death, getting high from a whip cream bottle, being with a girl named Mary, and riding his bike through the halls of his school as a masked man. The movie had many different plot twists but some of the story became dragged out longer than it should off. Still when it reached the end I found myself in tears, which I would consider a good quality because it means that I became close enough to the characters to become emotionally involved.
The acting was good, especially the performance of Adrian Grenier. I loved him as Sebastian. He was comical and dramatic. Sebastian was maturing though out the film but still had a lot to learn about life. Adrian Grenier knew how to become this character and I think that his performance was phenomenal.