Lymelife (Blu-ray) R
The American Dream Sucks
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 22, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy & Timothy Hutton | |
Performer: | Cynthia Nixon & Adam Scarimbolo | |
Directed by | Derick Martini | |
Edited by | Derick Martini, Steven Martini & Mark Yoshikawa | |
Screenwriting by | Steven Martini & Derick Martini | |
Composition by | Steven Martini | |
Produced by | Steven Martini, Alec Baldwin, Angela Somerville, Barbara De Fina, Jon Cornick & Michelle Tayler | |
Director of Photography: | Frank Godwin | |
Executive Production by | Martin Scorsese & Leonard Loventhal |
Entertainment Reviews:
[T]his keenly observed film wrenches gallows humor out of a crumbling family....It's a movie that gets under the skin.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
The rest of the cast is splendid, including Alec Baldwin, a long way from the network executive on the TV sitcom 30 Rock.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The film is about the distance between the ideal and the real....A tender, sometimes painful, sometimes blackly comic, story. The film's characters are not types but particular people...
Chicago Sun-Times
“Sometime late in LYMELIFE the director Derick Martini cuts to a close-up of a weeping teenager....It’s an unexpectedly moving image, a reminder that the close-up, in its ability to bring us near to the poetry of the human face, remains one of cinema’s most potent if often squandered techniques.”
New York Times
As a girl just beginning to recognize her sexual power, [Emma] Roberts moves one step closer to adult stardom.
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Marie Claire
Shaky in spots, but rewarding overall.
NUVO Newsweekly
Culkin and Roberts hit the right balance of savviness and clumsiness as teenagers who are smart enough to see what their parents try to conceal.
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Screen International
Product Description:
Rory Culkin (MEAN CREEK) stars in the coming-of-age drama LYMELIFE. Set in 1970s Long Island, the film has a WONDER YEARS feel with its friendly spats between brothers and a major crush on the all-American girl next door. As 15-year-old Scott, Culkin shares the screen with real-life brother Kieran Culkin, whose character, Jimmy, is just returning home on a break from the army. While Scott pines for his best friend, Adrianna (Emma Roberts), his family slowly unravels all around him. Alec Baldwin delivers a predictably solid performance as Scott’s meandering, sometimes heartless dad, but this role feels quite similar to ones we’ve seen him play in the past. Jill Hennessy is well-cast as Scott’s weary mother, as are Cynthia Nixon playing against type as a ditzy housewife, and Timothy Hutton as her Lyme-diseased husband. While their parents sloppily mess their way through the world of marriage and affairs, Scott and Adrianna explore a more genuine kind of romance.
It is the young cast members who really shine, with Rory Culkin driving the film's emotional core. More than five years since starring in IGBY GOES DOWN, Kieran Culkin shows a new maturity here. The real-life brothers display true chemistry (thanks in part to on-screen improvisation), and Roberts is charming as Adrianna. The joint effort of brothers Derick and Steven Martini, LYMELIFE was penned, directed, and produced by the brother pair, who wrote the script about their own teen years. Artful cinematography and a classic soundtrack come together in capturing the easily lost wonder of youth.
It is the young cast members who really shine, with Rory Culkin driving the film's emotional core. More than five years since starring in IGBY GOES DOWN, Kieran Culkin shows a new maturity here. The real-life brothers display true chemistry (thanks in part to on-screen improvisation), and Roberts is charming as Adrianna. The joint effort of brothers Derick and Steven Martini, LYMELIFE was penned, directed, and produced by the brother pair, who wrote the script about their own teen years. Artful cinematography and a classic soundtrack come together in capturing the easily lost wonder of youth.