The title doesn't relate to the story at all. Typical young boy growing up and having challenges at school. So he wanted to be an artist and what kid actually wanted to be what his father wanted him to be? The depiction of parents all too disengaged with the kid's situation is not very exciting or novel. There might have been a story in this somewhere but it ended abruptly (I guess that the money ran out and the camerman just quit when the film ran out.

While Anthony Hopkins does well playing the grandfather, there's not much in the rest to get excited about. Again, there might have been a story but the movie stopped before the story got going. I have seen much better movies about a youngster growing up. This one doesn't merit the time spent to watch it.