Parents Just Don't Understand: 'Far From The Tree' Profiles Kids Who Confound Expectations
Rachel Dretzin's sometimes poignant film, inspired by Andrew Solomon's book, takes a narrowly focused look at kids who turned out differently than their parents thought they would.
All children disappoint their parents from time to time, but most offspring are not profoundly different from what was expected â at least once they pass through the fire of adolescence. Author and psychologist Andrew Solomon had a more alienating experience. He felt he was utterly unacceptable to his family, which, chronicling more than 300 cases of difficult upbringings.
