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What happens when punk rockers grow up and have kids? That’s the central question of a very different kind of punk documentary that hits theaters this week. The Other F Word is a surprisingly touching exploration of what happens when someone who’s spent his life raging against the man becomes the man. Some of the answers are surprising.

The seeds of the story were planted in producer Cristan Reilly’s school days. “I knew Jim [Lindberg of Pennywise] in high school,” she says. “We were friends. I’m not allowed to say how we met, but we were partying; the things we bonded over, the things we talked about are things he’s forbidden me to talk about. Anyway, I kept in touch with him over the years and I heard he wrote a book called Punk Rock Dad. And with his sense of humor and sensibility, I thought it would be worthy of not only a look, but a deeper exploration. I read the book, and loved it. And [director] Andrea [Blaugrund] and I have been friends for about 20 years. We met when we were 10, and this film was only going to happen for me if Andrea was interested. So I took her the book. She had been raising children; we both had. And within 48 hours, by Sunday night, she was like ‘Let’s do it!’”