An overweight teenager in pyjamas meets an unconventional vice principal. Something unlikely starts.
Recognition
Terri is a large, gentle teenager who wears pyjamas to school, lives with his ailing uncle, and has, more or less, stopped trying to fit in. He is not rebellious – he has simply opted out.
Mr. Fitzgerald, the school's vice principal, notices him and invites him in for weekly meetings. The friendship that develops is genuine, odd, and quietly moving.
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, Terri is a film about the dignity of the overlooked. Starring Jacob Wysocki and John C. Reilly, it premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was distributed by ATO Pictures.
"Jacobs coaxes unselfconscious performances laced with both irony and pathos from his young cast"
The Hollywood Reporter · January 2011 · Read →"Jacobs' slow-building portrait of a late bloomer makes this poetic pic an outsider even among outsider movies"
Variety · 2011 · Read →