What kind of documentary do you have if the person your film is about is played by an actor lip-syncing that person’s words? This is only one of the intriguing questions posed by “My Old School,” a film in which all the flashbacks are at first animated and the animated characters are voiced by actors.
Directed by Jono McLeod (“The National Pet Service”), who was a classmate of the person “My Old School” is about, “My Old School” tells a whopper of a story about a student named Brandon Lee, an older-looking male from Canada, who appears at the steps of Glasgow’s “posh” Bearsden Academy in 1993, claiming to be 16 and seeking admittance. By the way, the actor Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, had been killed on the set of “The Crow,” only months earlier.
According to Brandon, whose creepy motto is, “Do the unimaginable,” his mother was a renowned opera singer with whom he traveled the world. She died in a car accident that left him facially scarred. His father, a London professor, wanted Brandon to live in Bearsden, a well-to-do Glasgow suburb, with his grandmother.
