Greg Pritikin would tell you that his debut as a major motion picture writer/director, Dummy, is a film about small successes. 
The kind of accomplishments that go unnoticed and grossly under appreciated in the American social atmosphere where everyone sits back and awaits their fifteen minutes.
Pritikin, a vastly talented, uncommonly observant, perhaps even genius newcomer, who remains soft spoken, introspective, and humble (despite his fantastic luck of casting Adrien Brody before El Pianista struck gold), paraphrased the writer Henry Miller when describing the perspective he took when writing the intentionally uplifting melancomedy yarn about an awkward, middle class, introverted bochur who finds his voice only after sticking his hand into the bowels of a wooden puppet