The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys (DVD, 2004)

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Actors ‏ : ‎ Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jena Malone, Jake Richardson. Set in the 1970s, this is the story of two rebellious teenage boys, Tim (Kieran Culkin) and Francis (Emile Hirsch), who attend a strict Catholic school presided over by the strict, humourless one-legged Sister Assumpta (Jodie Foster).

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It's the mid-1970s and while the rest of America is going through a sexual revolution Francis and Tim are trapped behind the stern walls of their Catholic school. Their only escape comes from the notebook they keep, in which - amid Francis' exceptional illustrations - they conceive their superhero alter egos.

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EAN5017239192258

eBay Product ID (ePID)30589220

Product Key Features

ActorKieran Culkin, Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Jake Richardson, Tyler Long, Vincent D'onofrio

Film/TV TitleThe Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

DirectorPeter Care

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesTrailer\Deleted Scenes

GenreDrama, General

Run Time104 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationSet in the rural South in the 1970s in a Catholic school, four pre-teen boys (Kieran Culkin, Emile Hirsch, Jake Richardson, and Tyler Long) create a comic book called "The Atomic Trinity" to channel their creativity, imagination, and rebellious adolescent angst. They each develop their own superhero and, in doing so, live out fantasy lives through their empowered, unchained alter egos. Their evil adversaries are exaggerated characters designed after their teachers: Sister Assumpta (Jodie Foster) the stark, peg-legged nun; and Father Casey (Vincent D'Onofrio), the shady, chain-smoking priest. The spotlight of the film shines clearly on the handsome Francis (Hirsch) whose crush on his neighbour and schoolmate, Margie Flynn (Jenna Malone), leaves him tongue-tied. Tim (Culkin) is bolder, and so he rewrites a William Blake poem and uses it to bring together secretly dark Margie with wide-eyed Francis. Their relationship flowers into one of the heavier and more mysterious subplots in the film. Margie is instantly written into the comic as a wounded warrior-heroine who enlists the superheroes to help her in her battles against evil. Meanwhile, the boys are busy planning--and occasionally executing--devilish pranks at school, eventually taking things a step too far, to tragic result.<BR>Based on the Chris Fuhrman book of the same name, adapted to the screen by writer Jeff Stockwell, THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS from director Peter Care is an edgy, engrossing, teen rebellion flick. Extensive animated sequences share a good amount of screen time with the live action narrative, and a prescient musical score by Marco Beltrami and Joshua Homme provides the perfect accent to the action of the film.

Movie/TV TitleThe Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys