Sammy (Miya Cech) thinks she`s a badass. She sneaks out of the house, smokes cigarettes, and simply was given expelled from her excessive college for a difficult prank that ended together with her getting a black eye. (She doesn`t mind. It makes her appearance though.) Sammy`s widower dad Angus (Leonardo Nam) is bored to death together along with her defiance, and threatens to ship her to a navy camp for afflicted young adults if she doesn`t begin taking her duties extra seriously. In short, Sammy is a rage-crammed adolescent. And like many rage-crammed adolescents, her anger is however a flimsy lid overlaying a deep properly of sadness. 
 And besides, how hardened can a youngster be if she`s wowed via way of means of magic tricks? That`s the wager that Margot (Rhea Perlman), a semi-a hit kids` celebration magician, takes whilst she catches Sammy smoking withinside the girls` room on the network university in which Sammy`s dad is forcing her to take an enterprise class. (Sammy`s “Ghost World”-Esque enterprise idea? A door-to-door euthanasia service.) Margot sees something in this wounded, rebellious child, and offers Sammy precisely what she desires: A non-judgmental area in which she will be able to technique her anger approximately her mom`s demise and discover ways to make gambling playing cards disappear. 
 “Marvelous and the Black Hole” is set in grief, yes. Sammy`s own circle of relatives dynamics, inclusive of her father`s eagerness to transport on and her sister Patricia`s (Kannon) escapist obsession with an internet position gambling recreation called “Kingdom Cog,” do element into the story. It`s additionally approximately cultural identity: Sammy falls asleep at night time being attentive to a tape recording of her overdue mom analyzing a Chinese fairy tale, and a segment in a magic ee-ebook approximately “Oriental mysteries” makes her query whether or not she belongs in Margot`s global at all. But maximum of all, “Marvelous and the Black Hole” is a movie approximately how creativity can bring us thru the hardest of times. 
 The movie unfolds at a mild pace, complete with colorful, non-threatening characters who deal with Sammy with the kindness she desires but can`t recognize properly now. Keith Powell, a.k.a. Toofer from “30 Rock,” co-stars as Sammy`s exasperated network university professor, along with Paulina Lule as Sammy and Patricia`s gracious soon-to-be stepmom. The series of eccentrics that make up Marvelous Margot`s mystery society of conjurers are in addition wholesome: In an initiation ritual complete with smoke and bombast, Margot asks Sammy if she delivered a “worth snack” to their magical salon. (That being said, one in all of them served  months in jail for dishonesty at a casino, which Sammy thinks is awesome.) 
 The sunny YA tone and moderate persistence of “Marvelous and the Black Hole” are observed via way of means of an experience of childlike imagination, which manifests in sequences like one in which Sammy imagines Margot`s puppy rabbit developing to full-size length withinside the fashion of the the a black-and-white `50s sci-fi film. Over the direction of the movie, Margot lightly teases out the vintage Sammy, calling her bluff via way of means of providing her wine—Sammy spits it out, due to the fact she`s extra harmless than she shall we on—and letting the lady provide her a tiny stick-and-poke tattoo. Margot has a hidden ache of her own, which Sammy doesn`t discover till overdue withinside the story. But that cognizance performs a pivotal position in Sammy`s journey. 
 Everyone is hurting in “Marvelous and the Black Hole.” But the film maintains its emotional recognition of Sammy, which says loads approximately who it turned into made for: Angry, pressured teens just like the principal character, who can relate to the photograph of a black hollow scratching out their faces whilst they`re crushed with frustration. This is glaringly a low-price range effort, and likely a private one for writer/director Kate Tsang. That heartfelt detail interprets into the benevolence of the adults in this movie—Perlman is in particular big-hearted, no wonder they're—now no longer to say Tsang`s apparent affection for her afflicted protagonist. Together, they imbue “Marvelous and the Black Hole” with sufficient warm temperature to conquer its realistic limitations. Talk approximately a sleight of hand trick.