Things That Hang from Trees is a 2006 drama film directed by Ido Mizrahy and written by Aaron Louis Tordini.
This emotionally troubled child also struggles with painful memories of his abusive, estranged father, Tom, whose mistreatment he recreates in a self-flagellating manner by systematically subjecting himself to the sadism of the 12-year-old local bully, Bear Hadley.
Kimberly Jones of The Austin Chronicle noted that "any time one story really gets cooking, we're jettisoned to another – but the ensemble cast does good work, and the location becomes a character unto itself.
nor allowing the other characters enough autonomy to create multiple perspectives, pic lacks an overarching aesthetic drive and floats stagnantly in its own frame of reference.
"[5] Nick Schager of Slant rated the movie at 2 out of 5 stars, writing "Mostly, though, Mizrahy’s film feels like Flannery O’Conner without the atmosphere of near-oppressive religiosity, or William Faulkner without the hypnotic surreality—or, to put it bluntly, like a giant symbolic drag.