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L.I.E.

Country: USA, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Michael Cuesta
  • Writer: Stephen M. Ryder; Michael Cuesta
  • Producer: Rene Bastian; Michael Cuesta

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Competent and disturbing.

Complex. Chilling. A likeable paedophile?!?

Brave stuff. Incredible stuff.

Brian Cox is mesmerising.

A tour-de-force.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.

Cast & Characters

Paul Dano as Howie Blitzer;
Bruce Altman as Marty Blitzer;
Billy Kay as Gary;
James Costa as Kevin Cole;
Tony Michael Donnelly as Brian;
Michelle Carano as Newscaster;
Tatiana Burgos as Marty's Girlfriend;
Brian Cox as Big John Harrigan;
B. Constance Barry as Anne Harrigan;
Walter Masterson as Scott;
Brad Silnutzer as Henry;
Bob Gerardi as Clifford;
Adam LeFevre as Elliot;
Frank Rivers as Man with Pizza;
Anthony F. Peragine as Tough Kid #1