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In a word, the opening scene of Disfluency is disconcerting. A young woman, Jane (Libe Barer), walks down a dark hallway filled with twinkling Christmas lights while loud dance music plays. Near the end of the hallway, she stumbles upon a nearly empty lecture hall. The only occupant is a professor (Molly Hagan) who is giving a lecture on disfluency, the condition that disrupts the continuous flow of speech. Suddenly, everything turns upside down and Jane is in the backseat of her parents' (Ricky Wayne and Diana de la Cruz) car on the way to her childhood home. She failed her last college class and is spending the summer at home with her sister (Ariela Barer). As the summer wears on, Jane must come to terms with what happened during her last semester at school. The multicolored Christmas lights from the opening scene fade in and out for the rest of the film, lingering in the background and referencing something the audience doesn't understand until much later in the film. There ...