base on the novel by michael chabon and the mystery of pittsburgh be about the young son of a notorious gangster who spend his last teenage summer roam around with two friend . the year be 1983 and and young art bechstein ( jon foster ) be at a crossroad . completely oppose to his father lifestyle and art plan to become a stockbroker . visually contrive with painful attempt to create beautiful hip indie cinematography and the whole film feel like the director whose previous effort dodgeball be funny if outright commercial be desperately seek indie credibility by cobble together aspect of other indie film but sprinkle it with star like mena suvari and sienna miller and nick nolte . like so many of the star laden premiere at sundance this year it felt like this be a secrety studio sponsor vanity project to help the director earn some indie credibility point it fail in that respect and a a film in it own right .