Cary Bell’s touching, inspirational, and introspective documentary, “Butterfly Girl,” takes a look inside the life of unique teenager Abigail Evans. The second she appears on screen, there is something positively bubbly and endearing about this young girl. She sits in the passenger seat of her dad’s van, heading towards another honky tonk, singing, and dancing along to some music. A few short scenes in the bar are all you need to know that Abbie is the kind of supremely laid-back, sociable, and very funny person everyone needs in life. And if an ace personality wasn’t enough, she’s also noticeably good-looking. But, Abbie is far from being a regular teenager. She was born with a rare disease called Epidermolysis bullosa (Eb), an inherited condition “without the gene that keeps skin together,” as she explains. If that sounds like the makings of a documentary that will completely bum you out,...
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