About Scout

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About Scout

2016

1h 49m

Drama

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Scout (India Ennenga), a 15-year-old Goth girl, embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal man (James Frecheville) to find her little sister.

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Bruce DeMara

Toronto Star

Mar 24, 2016

2.5/4

Road movies have become all too common. But the cast is excellent and there's a genuine sweetness and poignancy that makes this one worth the journey.

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Neil Genzlinger

New York Times

Mar 10, 2016

By the film's end, you're left with a sketch more than a full portrait. The characters were fleetingly interesting, yet you don't feel as if you have come to know them.

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Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

Mar 30, 2016

Riddled with [...] plot shortcuts and logic holes.

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Chris Knight

National Post

Mar 23, 2016

2.5/4

The actors (including Danny Glover as the law) are a fine bunch, but the screenplay can't find anything original to do with them.

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Susan G. Cole

NOW Toronto

Mar 9, 2016

3/5

There are plot holes galore, but the actors have terrific chemistry and make you care about their characters.

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Mitchel R

@RT89815859 Aug 16, 2026

Sweet story & characters except it glorifies crime and doesn’t have a clear recovery path for all. We are supposed to imagine that they formed a family but love alone doesn’t conquer deep demons. My bio-family had ample love and more to spare, but was extremely dysfunctional. It took decades for us to recovery just a part of sanity and only through Jesus. I wish the rich mother got counseling help for all and was involved in their lives. She seemed to cuddled her boy; and be an enabler. My family enabled our alcoholic mother and thus were a part of her problem. Having an early life of hard knocks does not entitle you to steal, lie, get drunk, tie up a store clerk, etc.

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JP A

@RT18554751 Aug 28, 2025

We love it🥰🥰 it's pure and soul lifting. Great movie..

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Steve D

@RT35616104 Feb 6, 2024

Flawed but the cast do a great job

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Aug 23, 2017

How indie is this movie? Well, it's title is About Scout.

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Mar 31, 2017

Not too bad of a little movie. Charming.

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Jan 17, 2017

there is only so much decent-good acting can do for a paint pealingly boring script

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Synopsis

Scout (India Ennenga), a 15-year-old Goth girl, embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal man (James Frecheville) to find her little sister.

Director: Laurie Weltz
Producer: Nicolas Emiliani, Dwjuan F. Fox, Beverley Gordon
Screenwriter: Laurie Weltz, India Ennenga
Distributor: Breaking Glass Pictures
Production Co: Decipher Entertainment, BrownBag Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 49m

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