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Still, the effort at variety gets messy and shortchanges a portion of whatever opportunity there may be to make a parable out of a popular hero’s adventures.

Strauss, who also adapted “Nine Perfect Strangers,” transforms Gibson's story into a fast-paced, funny and illuminative parable that, in its unique way, explains how fringe disinformation became our reality, and how the ludicrous became plausible.

I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

“A Different Man” is essentially a parable of authenticity, and the value of being comfortable in one’s own skin — like Oswald.

All of which adorns what is, at the center, a parable about parenting — how it changes the parent, how the parent must learn to let go.