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2002

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Starring	Paul Franklin Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay, James Costa
Director	Michael Cuesta
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian

L.I.E.

The Long Island Expressway, the highway that traverses suburban Long Island with its "lanes moving east, lanes moving west, and lanes that go straight to hell" serves as the central metaphor in this disturbing meditation on coming of age and teenage vulnerability. Howie Blitzer (Brian Cox) 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 L.I.E.) 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 convoluded path through adolescence.

Starring	Paul Franklin Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay, James Costa, Brian Cox, Marcia DeBonis, Tony Donnelly, Walter Masterson
Director	Michael Cuesta
Studio	PALISADES TARTAN
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2002 To Rent: DVD: 28 Apr 2003

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- "...It sees both of its characters without turning them into caricatures....Brian Cox has been a superb actor in more than 50 movies..."
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  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  Not Your Normal Rendering of a Teenage Boy.
  
  If you like Todd Solondz films – you’ll love this gem. It’s a neat take on the struggles of being a teenager, but it very much subverts all the ... read more »
  
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  - 02 Feb 2004 at 12:03
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  “L.I.E.” Is Just That – A LIE !!!
  
  “L.I.E.” Is Just That – A LIE !!!
  
  Why is the film “L.I.E.” classed as being in the - Drama, Gay / Lesbian Genres?
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  What was that ending all about?
  
  It could have been a touching story of friendship and understanding between two characters from different generations but the story gets spoiled big time when ... read more »
  
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  Tries Hard But Just Fails
  
  any film which touches on grooming a teenager is going to cause concern and the real fear is that it could have been easily done as titillation. Thankfully this... read more »
  
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  The Long Island Expressway, the highway that traverses suburban Long Island with its "lanes moving east, lanes moving west, and lanes that go straight to hell" serves as the central metaphor in this disturbing meditation on coming of age and teenage vulnerability. Howie Blitzer (Brian Cox) is a ...