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Movie Overview
Cast
Alexander Rae Baldwin
Kieran Culkin
Rory Culkin
Director
Derick Martini
MPAA Rating
R - for language, some sexual content, violence and drug use.
Lymelife (2009)
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OFCS Rating: 36% Rotten
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1/4
"After so many
Ice Storm
s and
American Beauty
s what further insights could the present offering hope to add?"
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
C
"It's awkward and transparent, inviting more confusion than closure.
Lymelife
is an attractive indie film package, but a desperately routine one that shock value cannot salvage."
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
C
""Lymelife" is a black comedy that sticks in your throat a little too much to be an enjoyable experience. However, it does have the side effect of making its audience feel superior to the characters on the screen."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Lymelife features frustrated, confused kids, and frustrated, self-obsessed adults."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
B
"May not do anything radically new, but it offers enough twists on familiar territory to be worth a visit."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3/5
"The quest for happiness by two suburban families through a series of serious tremors and marital troubles."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
5/10
"...there is only so much they can do covering such familiar territory."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
C
"... Timothy Hutton...offers a moving, intelligent and offbeat portrait of a man being kicked when he's down that should, but probably won't, be remembered at year's end."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
2.5/5
"The Martinis are not filmmakers, and I wish they had paid more attention in their Production 101 classes."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
"Authenticity is drowned out by an overarching don't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover message that long ago lost its luster."
The Screengrab
Nick Schager
4/5
"passionate and melancholy, captures the yearning and despair of growing up in the late '70s at the beginning of the end of the American Dream"
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
7/10
"Pretty durn good family drama with very egalitarian lines distributed amongst young and old. Not an easy film to watch but there are lessons for everyone."
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
6/10
"[Good acting] can certainly help, and for the most part
Lymelife
is functionally competent and barely familiar enough to be dull."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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