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Interestingly enough, religious people see it as religious, non-secular folks see it as non-secular.

49 out of 50 thus far have loved it. No one agrees what it’s about. It’s about shunning. It’s about jumping to erroneous conclusions. It’s about gay rights. It’s about childhood. I say, it’s about one little girl wanting another little girl to come over and play at her house. Do you have any idea how tough it is to write that into a logline that will ignite the imagination? If I wrote that, I’d get, like, yeah, so? Why should I care?

For me, the most entertaining aspects are the two little girls and their fantasy worlds yet everyone agrees, it’s about the mother. The mother struggles and fails to accept her daughter’s friend, who happens to be her goddaughter. Because she was raised to be stoic, she can’t talk openly with her daughter about her fears. In a moment of weakest, she has the church excommunicate the family, only to learn what the dire consequences will be in heaven. Lesson learned, she breaks her silence and begins the mother-daughter relationship of her dreams, and finally accepts her goddaughter for who she is. Sort of.

It isn’t strictly a musical. There are key scenes where music is an intergrated part of the story, but it is far and away from the traditional concept of musical.

The title is “Jolly Friends.”

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