Article: Palo Alto, CA.(Video recording review)

By Ed Hulse

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> Amiable, low-budget teen dramedy has appealing cast and believable situations.

Four childhood friends (familiar TV faces Ben Savage, Johnny Lewis, Justin Mentell, Aaron Ashmore), now college freshmen, return home for Thanksgiving break and go looking for excitement on their last night together. They decide to break into their old high school to retrieve a specific item confiscated from one of them by a teacher. Not the low-road, cheap-laugh comedy its premise suggests, Palo Alto is a reasonably thoughtful indie that has a ring of authenticity--perhaps because the film's ...

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