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A single mom struggles to solve the puzzle of the kid with Asperger's symptoms in this touching, winsome comic melodrama. Rory Falcon is a bundle of exasperating eccentricities-perpetual pacing, mile-a-minute talkativeness, an obsession with backyard mowers and classic gas cans, an incorrigible refusal to check out instructions or tolerate constraints-combined with a good heart and soul that only his adoptive mom Archer can easily see. But as he pushes 16-years-old, his quirks escalate to taking in, joyriding and muscular rages that can end with him blackening his mom's eyeball. Archer, a frantically multitasking lawyer who's up for a judgeship, blames her mothering skills for Rory's behavior because there's no person else to blame - least of all her ex-husband Wayne, a whiny man-child still seeking to break into a theater job. Then Rory and a high-school hellion known as Trish hare off in a stolen car to find Rory's beginning mom, and Archer embarks on the journey to recover her kid and unearth buried family secrets that stretch out completely back again to the Salem Witch Studies. In this entertaining dysfunction romp, the creators slice the pathos with tart laughter and brilliant characterizations. Hurricane Rory can be an indelible portrait of the high-functioning autistic kid who's both off-putting and magnetic; veering between crazy, foul-mouthed tantrums, plangent sweetness and locked-down obliviousness, he's as much a secret to himself as to everybody else. Archer is another radiant tangle of contradictions; determined that can be played the stalwart authority figure, she feels as though a wreck and a failure-a tiger mom who's nonetheless in serious danger of collapsing in vodka-soaked sniffles in to the arms of the comforting teenager. As she walks a fraying maternal tightrope-with plenty of pratfalls-Lewis and Faircloth give visitors a entertaining and moving review of familial love that's all the more robust for its conflicts and misgivings.
