Product Information
Howie, a fifteen-year-old boy starts to spend too much time with his delinquent friends after his mother dies. When Howie meets Big John, an ex-marine, he discovers a secret that connects them to each other...Product Identifiers
ProducerLinda Moran, Rene Bastian, Michael Cuesta
EAN5023965340320
eBay Product ID (ePID)3955881
Product Key Features
ActorBilly Kay, Walter Masterson, Marcia Debonis, Bruce Altman, Paul Dano, Adam Lefevre, James Costa, Tony Donnelly, Brian Cox
Film/TV TitleL.I.E.
DirectorMichael Cuesta
LanguageEnglish
Run Time95 Mins
Aspect RatioAnamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
FeaturesWidescreen, Star And Director Filmographies\Scene Selection\Ali Catterall Film Notes\Deleted Scene\Audio Commentary From Director Michael Cuesta And Actor Brian Cox\Original Theatrical Trailer
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
ComposerPierre Foldes
ReviewsTotal Film - ...A huge amount rests on Cox's shoulders, and he uncorks his best work in years....The kids, too, are excellent..., Rolling Stone - ...It's a powerful and provocative achievement from a first-time filmmaker of enormous promise..., Chicago Sun-Times - ...It sees both of its characters without turning them into caricatures....Brian Cox has been a superb actor in more than 50 movies..., Movieline - ...Haunting....This remarkable film honors the complexities of an explosive situation, and that's an audacious achievement..., USA Today - ...Cox's widely praised performance is a marvel of underplaying..., Film Comment - ...[The film] features a terrific performance by Paul Franklin Dano...
Additional InformationThe 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.
ScreenwriterStephen Ryder, Gerald Cuesta, Michael Cuesta
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleL.I.E.
Director of PhotographyRomeo Tirone