![]() ![]() Gifford’s fine-lined vignettes add suitably tongue-in-cheek visual notes. Daneshvari takes this setup and runs with it, injecting plenty of droll dialogue and plunging the four students into one challenging, chaotic situation after another. Wellington, an ancient ex–beauty queen who claims to be able to train cats. Its facilities include a well-stocked “Fearnasium,” breakfast consists of “casu frazigu” (maggot cheese) sandwiches produced by a blind and crusty octogenarian cook/caretaker and the teacher is Mrs. ![]() ![]() Having carried their fears to such extremes that parents, counselors and doctors are powerless to help, Madeleine (spiders and insects), Lucy (claustrophobia), Garrison (water) and Theo (death) find themselves trucked off to an isolated Massachusetts mansion. The course of instruction at a school for phobic children turns out to be anything but conventional in this hyperbolically arch romp. ![]()
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