Special

Special

2006 · 81 min · EN · R · 6.2 (82 votes)
Dir. Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore · Starring Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker, Jack Kehler, Alexandra Holden · Music Tom Wolfe

He's not your ordinary superhero.

DramaFantasyScience Fiction

A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

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This film feels like a fever dream, a melancholic and anxious dive into a mind unraveling. It’s a quirky, unsettling character study that explores the lonely space between delusion and reality, wrapped in a low-fi sci-fi aesthetic.

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