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The film genuinely captures the tumult of attempting to make sense of life in early teen years. as rebellious and confrontational as Francis and Tim may be, they also desperately seek to ask questions in an environment where guidance is practically non-existent. as the focal point of the ... Read review
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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In mid-1970's Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch) and ... more
Tim Sullivan, (Kieran Culkin) fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Fra...
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 2003 - Drama - Director: Michael Winterbottom - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar
Advantages: moving but also funny. Disadvantages: not really a good storyline but still a good film.
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it's set in the 1970's, Francis (Emile Hirsch) and Tim (Kieran Culkin) are two irreverent, trouble-making friends who attend the same Catholic high school. their archenemy is sister Assumpta (Jodie Foster), an immensely strict nun, who rules the school with an iron fist. seeking a more even playing field, Tim and the artistically gifted Francis, with the help of a few friends, create a comic book where their superhero alter egos ... ...Francis also finds himself in the clutches of his first relationship, when he becomes romantically involved with a fellow classmate, the reclusive Margie (Jena Malone). aside from the sudden addition of a third wheel threatening Francis and Tim's friendship, Margie also harbors and later reveals a dark secret, which adds to Francis' mounting confusion. when Sister Assumpta strikes with an especially serious blow to the routine of the boys' lives, ... more
this film actually made me cry which is pretty hard to do nowadays. it's set in the 1970's, Francis (Emile Hirsch) and Tim (Kieran Culkin) are two irreverent, trouble-making friends who attend the same Catholic high school. their archenemy is sister Assumpta (Jodie Foster), an immensely strict nun, who rules the school with an iron fist. seeking a more even playing field, Tim and the artistically gifted Francis, with the help of a few friends, create a comic book where their superhero alter egos do battle with the evil forces of Sister Assumpta. Francis also finds himself in the clutches of his first relationship, when he becomes romantically involved with a fellow classmate, the reclusive Margie (Jena Malone). aside from the sudden addition of a third wheel threatening Francis and Tim's friendship, Margie also harbors and later reveals a dark secret, which adds to Francis' mounting confusion. when Sister Assumpta strikes with an especially serious blow to the routine of the boys' lives, they rally around their shared animosity for the woman and engage in an impossibly dangerous revenge mission. The film genuinely captures the tumult of attempting to make sense of life in early teen years. as rebellious and confrontational as Francis and Tim may be, they also desperately seek to ask questions in an environment where guidance is practically non-existent. as the focal point of the movie, Emile Hirsch is superlative as Francis. he hits the full range of his character's emotions, and gives you a protagonist who is easy to identify with. Kieran Culkin's performance, at times, feels forced, but his character is the most difficult to grasp, and thus his role appears to be the hardest one to pull off convincingly. Jena Malone, more or less, played this same character in last year's Donnie Darko, and she's just as effective this time around. As for the film's two stars, Jodie Foster is adequate as rigid Sister Assumpta, but Vincent D'Onofrio is basically in sleepwalk mode as Father Casey, the less austere academic authoritarian. McFarlane's animation, which depicts the stories told in Francis and Tim's comic book, provides a nice jolt to the proceedings, especially when the pace begins to slow midway through the film. although Francis and Margie's relationship is involving, it also unfolds in a very labored manner. care would've been better served streamlining this aspect of the story, but he sprinkles in enough comic moments throughout to mostly keep the film as entertaining as it is provocative. the dangerous lives of altar boys is able to evoke emotions without painstakingly going out of its way to do so. it's the type of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days: realistic, urgent, and not sugarcoated in the least.
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.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
28/06/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
EDV 9225
Barcode
5017239192258
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Trailer, Deleted Scenes
DVD Description
Set 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. 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.
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