Goats

Goats

You can't choose your family...or can you?

R 2012 · 92 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy

Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.

Directed by Christopher Neil · Written by Mark Poirier

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