A drunken, faded sports jock (Kristoffer Polaha) who is having difficulties raising his rebellious teenage daughter (McKaley Miller) on his own finds faith-restoring “magical happiness” in “Produce,” a grocery clerk played by David DeSanctis (one of the few actors with Down syndrome to star in an American feature). Mixed messages abound. It’s one thing to chide Mr. Baseball’s most insensitive chum for seeing in the “slow kid” a TV spokesperson needed to boost used car sales, another to extract cheap laughs as the slugger gets out of a speeding ticket by trading places with Produce. TV-movie caliber plotting and pacing smooth the path, right down to a vulgar bid to extort tears through a shamelessly calculating eleventh-hour switcheroo. Good for families wanting to teach children about the lives of the intellectually challenged. Others will find it hopelessly pedestrian. The Godspeed Pictures production was written and directed by Chris Dowling. (2014) — Scott Marks
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