Morris from America (2016)

Jack and I loved this story of an African-American 13 year old and his widowed father struggling in their new life in Germany. The fish-out-of-water and familial push-pull themes ground its clever concept. Essential humor is added by Craig Robinson (last blogged for This Is the End) as the father Curtis. Young Markees Christmas, in his feature debut, is also quite good as the title character.

The Independent Spirit Awards are the day before the Oscars and the trailer shown on that program, as well as the movie's important nominations and wins (none from Oscar), inspired us to stream this on Netflix a few days ago.

Director/writer Chad Hartigan, a white man, was born in Cyprus but went to high school and college in the US. The soundtrack by Keegan DeWitt, a combination of Morris and Curtis' hip-hop and the German teenagers' techno, can be streamed from this link.

I can't imagine why Rotten Tomatoes' audiences are so cool on this, averaging 61%. Its critics come in at 89. Repeat: we loved it.