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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)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 36% Rotten
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1/4
"After so many Ice Storms and American Beautys 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
OFCS Rating: 36% Rotten
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