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Movie Description
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 (Paul Franklin Dano) 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 (Brian Cox), 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.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Single Side - Dual Layer
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Michael Cuesta - Director, Brian Cox - Star
Industry Reviews
"...[The film] features a terrific performance by Paul Franklin Dano..."
Film Comment - p.63-5 - Nicole Armour (03/01/2001)
"...[Cox] gives a knockout performance..."
Rolling Stone - p.85-6 - Peter Travers (03/15/2001)
"...Haunting....This remarkable film honors the complexities of an explosive situation, and that's an audacious achievement..."
Movieline - p.35-6 - Stephen Farber (09/01/2001)
"...It's a powerful and provocative achievement from a first-time filmmaker of enormous promise..."
Rolling Stone - p.73-4 - Peter Travers (09/27/2001)
"...It sees both of its characters without turning them into caricatures....Brian Cox has been a superb actor in more than 50 movies..."
Chicago Sun-Times - p.29 - Roger Ebert (09/21/2001)
"...A huge amount rests on Cox's shoulders, and he uncorks his best work in years....The kids, too, are excellent..."
Total Film - p.112 - Matthew Leyland (12/01/2002)
"...Cox's widely praised performance is a marvel of underplaying..."
USA Today - p.6E - Mike Clark (06/07/2002)
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