TERRI is an odd little film, long on art house quirkiness — but also sweet, believable characters and noteworthy acting, most of all from John C. Reilly. Not a lot happens in the small town where the story takes place, or in the story itself for that matter, composed of one too many scenes with talking heads. But "Fitz" (Reilly as Vice Principal Fitzpatrick) and Terri (Jacob Wysocki in his film debut) develop a satisfying and endearing friendship, one of enough pluses here to convince me that Azazel Jacobs — the man behind a number of other equally small films such as 2008's well-reviewed MOMMA'S MAN, has talent to build on.
Terri's an obese teenager caring for an uncle suffering from Alzheimer's. (Terri's parents abandoned him in childhood, a detail that ought to have been elaborated on.) Picked on for his weight and facing loneliness and depression – the latter evident in the PJ's he wears to school every day – Vice Principal Fitzpatrick takes Terri under his wing and arranges informal chitchats for the two of them on Monday mornings. This gives Terri a sounding board and ally, and soon the fifteen-year-old makes new friends and begins to emerge from his shell.
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