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Intense bittersweet movie about a girl who gets manipulated equally by her imprisoned mom desperate for control and the foster home environments she parades through. Great supporting characters along the way. There’s a lot of ground covered so there’s not room for too much depth, but watching Astrid strengthen while finding her confidence was inspiring.<\/p>\n

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Intense bittersweet movie about a girl who gets manipulated equally by her imprisoned mom desperate for control and the foster home environments she parades through. Great supporting characters along the way. There’s a lot of ground covered so there’s not room for too much depth, but watching Astrid strengthen while finding her confidence was inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-only-cool-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-1b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/reiley-and-i-play-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":0},"title":"Reiley and I play war","author":"m","date":"February 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday we decided that Reiley was old enough to play a Real Time Strategy war game with me. 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