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Coconut Hero
Set in the middle of Nowheresville, the movie centers on 16-year-old Mike, suffering from a fatal brain tumor, reconsiders his struggles when he meets the love of his life, without even knowing what love is.
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
28 December 1994, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
25 September 1946, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
23 September 1998, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
25 July 1974, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 November 1968, Ontario, Canada
8 May 1968, Hannover, Germany
March 17, 2016
Too obvious in its quest for quirkiness, director Florian Cossen's German-Canadian indie about a suicidal 16-year-old named Mike Tyson (Alex Ozerov) has some original moments, but not enough of them to make Coconut Hero stand out.
March 17, 2016
If I have to see one more movie about a suicidally depressed teenager who learns life lessons from a pretty girl, I may kill myself.
March 18, 2016
There's nothing new here that hasn't been mined, ahem, to death in other, similar genre entries.
March 16, 2016
Coconut Hero turns into a film about an oddball kid relieved to find out he has a brain tumour, a new escape hatch from his small Canadian town seemingly populated by Wes Anderson's bastard children.

