C'mon C'mon

“Be funny, when you can.”

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) wants to get through a stretch of his life without having to look at it too closely. Then his sister Viv (Gaby Hoffmann) asks him to take in her nine-year-old son Jesse (Woody Norman), and the two set out from Los Angeles on a trip that makes the boy hard to ignore. Mike Mills shoots it in black and white and keeps the camera low and patient.