George Washington (film)

Its story centers on a group of children in a depressed small town in North Carolina who band together to cover up a tragic mistake.

After breaking up with her show-off boyfriend Buddy, she withdraws from her delinquent friends and becomes romantically interested in a strange, introverted boy named George Richardson, who is burdened by the fact that his skull never hardened after birth.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Languid and melancholy, George Washington is a carefully observed rumination on adolescence and rural life.

"[9] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers called David Gordon Green "a writer and director of rare grace and feeling", whose directorial debut is of "startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.

"[10] Joe Leydon of Variety was one of ten critics (out of 56) to give the film a negative review, calling it an "undistinguished and uninvolving attempt to offer a rural spin on Kids".