The Parts You Lose

2019
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.2K

YOUR RATING

Aaron Paul, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scoot McNairy, and Danny Murphy in The Parts You Lose (2019)

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Crime Drama Thriller

A young boy in a small North Dakota town befriends a potentially dangerous fugitive.A young boy in a small North Dakota town befriends a potentially dangerous fugitive.A young boy in a small North Dakota town befriends a potentially dangerous fugitive.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
Because he hails from England, Danny Murphy was fluent in British Sign Language, which is completely different from American Sign Language. When ASL interpreters first met with Danny, they couldn't understand what he was saying, comparing his signing to a thick Scottish accent. So, Danny learned ASL for the film.

Quotes
[first lines]
Middle Schooler: Look! Here Comes The Retard Rocket!
[starts pelting snowballs at the deaf bus Wesley's on]

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Great, Emotionally Subdued Film

It's the difficulty of growing up due to parts of yourself that you lose in the process specially if you're physically impaired. This is the point that the film drives home quite well.

Great acting by young Danny Murphy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott McNairy and Aaron Paul. They make sure that we get it. The interaction between Aaron Paul and Danny Murphy (who's really deaf in real life) is so heartwarming more so because Wesley is hungry for a father's affection. You wished it would've ended differently. But that it did the way it did makes it more memorable.

It's shot in winter, and the drabness heightens Wesley's passage to a new life stage, gloomy but wiser.