Um Criminoso em Fuga

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.