New Yorkers love to tease that Brooklyn is ideal for young people who love ironic eyewear, self-employment and a closet full of skinny jeans.

BBC: Brooklyn: The Wall Street alternative

In the movie, which was written by Eric Roth and directed by Stephen Daldry, Oskar (Thomas Horn) is fully there, front and center, a skinny kid with blue eyes, irritated by his living mom (Sandra Bullock) and madly in love with his deceased dad (Tom Hanks, seen generously in flashbacks).

NEWYORKER: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

You love how she shivers when you bite, how she fights you with those arms that are so skinny they belong on an after-school special.

NEWYORKER: Alma