Plot Summary for
Mudge Boy, The (2003)

The film follows the story of Duncan, a fourteen-year old misfit farm boy trying to fill the void and alleviate the numbness left by his mother's passing. Unable to let her go quite yet, Duncan mimics his dead mother. He talks in her voice at the dinner table and wears her fur coat to bed. Edgar, Duncan's sixty year old, distant father, doesn't understand the strange manifestations of his son's mourning. Why can't Duncan grieve like a normal person? Edgar becomes intent on laying down some new rules and turning his coddled son into someone who can take on the family farm.

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Fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy Duncan Midge (Hirsch) is trying to cope with his mother's death. To do so, he decides to ape her behaviors, right down to wearing her fur coat to bed. This causes Duncan's father (Jenkins) further grief, who doesn't understand his son's unusual mourning rituals.

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