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Mama & Damian

Mama and Damian-not another lik ...
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"Mama and Damian The most important thing to say about this film is that it is original, fun, memorable, and you definitely have never seen another movie like it. The movie is full of on-the-edge humor. The filmmakers deliberately pose the "adult man in the bear costume" as an adolescent who is actually half-bear, half-man. The fact that the characters in the film take the absurdity of it as gospel defines the movie. Is this a tale of an ordinary, if somewhat dysfunctional, German family in Delaware? Is it the tale of a domineering (or dominatrix) mother who refuses to let her baby become a man, dressing him and treating him like the very bear-boy-toy he cuddled as a child? Is it a nod to the insanity of broken families; the desperate and the homeless? Or is it purely a fantasy, and the coming of age of a boy who is half-bear, who finally takes that step that leads him out beyond his doorstep? W.G. White, as Damian, stole the show. He played ... " [More]