Lymelife (2009)

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TRIVIA

The script was developed at the 2002 Sundance filmmaker's lab.

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SPECS

• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2009-04-08 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Screen Media
• Film Genre(s): Drama
• Country: United States
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SYNOPSIS

This is the story about the dark side of suburban paradise and the loss of innocence centers on two deeply troubled, dysfunctional families during the late 1970s.  The film revolves around an awkward, sensitive 15-year old boy, Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), whose family life is turned upside-down after an outbreak of Lyme disease hits the community spreading illness and paranoia.  Scott’s parents -- a workaholic father, Mickey (Alec Baldwin) and an overprotective mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy) -- are on the verge of a divorce as his older brother Jim (Kieran Culkin) is about to ship off for war. Scott also has a longtime crush on his next door neighbor, Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts), who seems to be the only person in the world to understand him. Adrianna has an equally troubled, less affluent family including an uptight mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), carrying on a not-so-clandestine love affair, and a father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), slowly slipping away from the effects of Lyme disease.

RELATED NEWS

Because the Dramatic Main Competition category can : 2008-12-04

: 2008-03-04

 Cinemavault announced that they picked up international rights to the film - the seven-figure-deal includes Canadian distribution rights where it is slated for a spring theatrical release to go day-and-date with its US theatrical release by Screen Media Films. : 2009-01-16