That’s What I Am: Film Review

11:59 AM PDT 4/10/2011 by David Rooney

Chase Ellison plays a young boy who learns about tolerance in Mike Pavone's tween-oriented coming-of-age drama, which also stars Ed Harris and wrestler Randy Orton.

NEW YORK – A sensitive performance from Ed Harris lends a core of quiet integrity to writer-director Mike Pavone’s gentle coming-of-age drama, That’s What I Am. But this well-intentioned tween-friendly message movie is earnest to a fault.