The bulk of White Palms--and the more riveting, grim storyline--is seen in flashback to the early 1980s.
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An uncommonly resonant sports drama in which a talented yet troubled gymnast comes to terms with a turbulent past.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film's climax, which cuts back and forth between the 16-year-old Dongo (Silas Radies, whose younger brother plays Dongo as a ten year old) making his dangerous debut with the fly-by-night Aurora Circus and the 2002 competition that takes him back to Hungary for the first time in years is nothing short of riveting.