A Home School Where the Lessons Are Subtle Desultory, dauntingly DIY but secretly efficient, "Breakfast With Curtis" is something like a leafy summer afternoon in movie form. This is the third feature from the writer and director Laura Colella, who has shot it in and around her own well-loved, multifamily Victorian and the house next door. Her neighbors play the film's overlapping, underdressed group of friends and family. This micro-indie movie is partly about a taciturn, home-schooled teenager, Curtis (subtly played by Jonah Parker), coming out of his shell, but it's mostly about hanging out. Curtis helps Syd, a mail-order bookseller (played by Theo Green, a bookseller), make web-video monologues. Beyond that, the adults laze about, wonder aloud, drink (and otherwise indulge), goof off and generally pass days so free of care that Curtis's dad is asked what it's like to work 9 to 5. The name of the setting, Providence, seems peculiarly suited for this blessed patch of boho calm. The acting is as casual as the casting might suggest, at times bewilderingly so, but Ms. Colella appealingly underplays certain moments, as if taking a cue from her characters" let-it-ride attitude. Curtis gradually blends in and takes things in stride, and that seems a lesson in itself. It's a film whose seminal event occurred five years earlier, when Syd said an unkind word to Curtis regarding a cat, because, well, that's how it goes sometimes. Breakfast With Curtis Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan. Written, produced, directed and edited by Laura Colella; director of photography, Ms. Colella; released by Bond 360 and Abramorama. At the IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas, at Third Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 22 minutes. WITH: Theo Green (Syd), Jonah Parker (Curtis), David Parker (Simon), Aaron Jungels (Frenchy), Yvonne Parker (Sadie), Virginia Laffey (Sylvie), Adele Parker (Pirate), Laura Colella (Paola) and Gideon Parker (Young Curtis).