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L.I.E. (2001) |
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97
minutes
Rated: NC-17
Country: US
Studio: Lot 47 Films
Cast: Brian Cox, Paul
Franklin Dano, Billy Kay, Bruce
Altman, James Costa
Director: Michael Cuesta
Screenwriter: Stephen M.
Ryder, Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta |
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Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin Dano)
is a sensitive fifteen-year-old who
runs with a rough crowd. The recent
death of his mother (in a car
accident on exit 52 of the Long
Island Expressway) and his father's
indifference to it, have left him
floating in a world bubbling over
with sex, violence, and danger. When
his best friend Gary convinces Howie
to burglarize the house of their
neighbor, 60-year-old Big John, the
tenuous balance of their teenage
existence is entirely thrown off. To
make matters even worse, Howie's
father is arrested over a bad
business deal. Howie is left
dangling, and only Big John seems to
care. A harrowing mixture of
tenderness and perversion
electrifies the father-son
relationship that forms between
Howie and Big John. Director Michael
Cuesta's touching vision of domestic
life in modern-day suburbia is at
once humorous and unnerving as it
boldly charts one boy's convoluted
path through adolescence. |
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