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Coconut Hero
Set in the middle of Nowheresville, the movie centers on 16-year-old Mike, suffering from a fatal brain tumor, reconsiders his struggles when he meets the love of his life, without even knowing what love is.
25 July 1974, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
28 December 1994, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
4 November 1968, Ontario, Canada
23 September 1998, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
March 17, 2016
If I have to see one more movie about a suicidally depressed teenager who learns life lessons from a pretty girl, I may kill myself.March 17, 2016
Too obvious in its quest for quirkiness, director Florian Cossen's German-Canadian indie about a suicidal 16-year-old named Mike Tyson (Alex Ozerov) has some original moments, but not enough of them to make Coconut Hero stand out.March 16, 2016
Coconut Hero turns into a film about an oddball kid relieved to find out he has a brain tumour, a new escape hatch from his small Canadian town seemingly populated by Wes Anderson's bastard children.March 18, 2016
There's nothing new here that hasn't been mined, ahem, to death in other, similar genre entries.