Ed Harris alway locates the esscence of every character he portrays. He plays a soft-spoken, bow-tie wearing, middle school teacher in the new movie "That's What I am" a reflection on bullying and tollerance. It is a sentimental movie, whose narrator looks back on his middle-school experience. His beloved teacher (Harris), is portrayed as a martyr-like figure. A bully spreads rumors about the teacher's sexuality, which he refuses to deny out of principle, which leads the small town on a sort of witch-hunt. The movie portrays the children as naive, especially for the 1965 standards. The film is produced by WWE Studios, so they slip in a wrestling star to play the homophobic father of the bully. "Thats What I Am" opens on Friday in Manhattan.
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