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| | City Newspaper: Film: Film reviews: Small towns, small lives, small movie |
 | | The object of his affection is Noel (Zooey Deschanel), the younger sister of his best friend, Tip (Shea Whigham), who's just back from boarding school --- a highly unlikely and quite inexplicable bit of background that constitutes one of the puzzles of the script. |
 | | For example, at one point, Paul and one of his chums, decked out in helmets and safety gear, drive Paul's mother's tinny little Ford in a stock car race, trundling around the track far behind the souped-up junkers --- which makes no sense at all. |
 | | In another scene, Paul reluctantly dresses in a clown suit to help his mother in her job as a children's entertainer. |
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