Fireflies in the Garden

Fireflies in the Garden

  • Director: Dennis Lee
  • Writer: Robert Frost,Dennis Lee
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 17, 2008
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Світлячки у саду
  • "Fireflies in the Garden" is a family ethics film released by German Senator Film, directed by Dennis Lee, starring Julia Roberts , Ryan Rodney Reynolds , and William James Dafoe . It was screened at the Berlin Film Festival on February 10, 2008.
    The film tells the story of a broken family coming back together after an accident. 

    Details

    • Release date July 17, 2008
    • Filming locations Austin, Texas, USA
    • Production companies Kulture Machine, Senator Entertainment Co

    Box office

    Budget

    $8,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $70,600

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $36,884

    Gross worldwide

    $6,692,182

    Movie reviews

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    • By Hazle 2022-01-21 08:01:34

      The relationship between father and son is an eternal topic

      This film was opened easily. I saw the name of Ryan Reynolds halfway through the subtitles. I couldn't help but spit out the title. . By the way, I was very fond of this baby before, but from which film did he annoy him a bit, as if it was an ex-girlfriend? I didn't have the heart to watch that film, but I hurried it over. At that time, it was a handsome guy who was whistling in his heart. How many movies with similar themes should you play with that innocent look?
              When this...

    • By Jules 2022-01-21 08:01:34

      When is the injustice reported?

      It's not that enemies don't meet together, how many families in the world, parents are hurt by their children, or their children are deeply hurt by their parents (not much physical harm, but I'm talking about the soul). Sadly, the person who hurts is often blinded by a good "justified" reason without knowing that the other person has been hurt deeply. The injured party often "just defends," and as a result, everyone has the "truth" but both lose out.

      The son in the movie was deeply...

    • By Keven 2022-01-21 08:01:34

      Family love with the same theme

      The protagonist came back to attend his mother's graduation ceremony. Because of an accident, the graduation ceremony became a funeral. The funeral opened the memory of the hero. More often it was a contest between him and his father. He always failed. It may be because of lack of courage or because he felt that he was incapable of resisting. Sometimes he would "lost advanced glasses". His little trick is to watch his father get angry to relieve his hatred. For him, his father is the root of...

    • By Brett 2022-01-21 08:01:34

      There is love as well as filth and misery

      In recent years, the big-mouthed beauty Julia Roberts has starred in none of the movies that can be called the best. Guest appearances such as "Twelve Arhats" and "Valentine's Day" are not counted, and the films themselves are blatant commercials for money; "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Duplicity" have not encountered critics or box office Waterloo, but they are all. Plain work; the animations "Charlotte's Web" and "Don't mess with ants" dubbed by her did not cause any sensation in the animation...

    • By Cleve 2022-01-21 08:01:34

      Fireflies in the Garden

      The soothing rhythm slowly tells the story of a family, father, mother, son, cousin. I don't know how many people have had shadows and tears in their childhood. When you are so young and helpless, you can only accept punishment and arrangement from adults, and they call it love. Is it really a father? The tough face line and the iron complexion are like a frozen lake in winter, only feeling the cold.
      Michael must have asked countless times in his heart when he was a child, am I really your...

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    • By Greyson 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      A fucked-up family reunited because of a wonderful women's...

    • By Cleve 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      The film itself is worth Samsung. Love and hate in the family, trivial things play an important role in your life, the film proves to you that no matter what your parents do, they will always love you. Good idea, plus one...

    • By Brenna 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Without children~ I don’t know how much like my...

    • By Grayce 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      I hate U, U hear me? I wish U were Dead! How resentful a child must be to say such things to Daddy! The father-son relationship is in jeopardy. Hengmei was cold, and there was nothing to say. In the end, the accidental death of the mother who was the only buffer link, this incident and the derivative incidents allowed the father-son relationship to gradually ease. When I was a child, I only saw my father's brutality, but when I grew up, I gradually realized that my father was vulnerable and...

    • By Adelbert 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Willem Dafoe can't play that style, the previous roles are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Certain details are...

    Movie plot

    Michael (Ryan Rodney Reynolds) is a successful novelist, but no one knows that writing is just a means of healing his wounds, and the nightmare of his childhood is always with him. Michael's father Charles (William James Dafoe) is a university professor, but he is also an extreme machismo. Michael's childhood is full of memories of his father's tyrannical behavior. His mother Lisa (Julia Roberts) is the perfect wife and mother. She is...
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    "Fireflies in the Garden" is a story with a solid script that focuses on the pain of ordinary people. It has all the conditions to hit the Oscars. However, in the film, the actor's sense of age is too thin. Following in Michael's footsteps, the film is in memory and reality. Shuttle, the color of the stream of consciousness brought about by the autobiographical nature of the script blurs the boundary between the two, and it is...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jimmy: [to Michael] Gotta tell you my kids love it here. Christopher's in your old room and Leslie here is in Ryne's.

      [turns to Leslie]

      Jimmy: Say hello to your cousin.

      Michael: [to Leslie, when she doesn't say anything] You're short.

      Jimmy: [to Michael] Yeah guest room's upstairs, second door on the right, but I guess you know that because uh this is your home.

      Leslie: Uncle Charlie said it's our home now.

      Jimmy: You're right honey, it is our home now. But um, Michael grew up here so... it's his home, too.

      Leslie: But it's our home.

      Jimmy: [picks Leslie up] What do you say we go catch some more of that ball game, huh?

      [to Michael as he starts walking]

      Jimmy: If you need anything let me know.

      Michael: Okay.

      Jimmy: [stops and turns back to Michael] Hey this... this is great, you know... It's good to...

      Michael: Yeah you too.

      [Mouths to Leslie after Jimmy turns back around]

      Michael: It's MY home.

    • Michael: [sits down near Christopher on the roof] I love what you've done with the room.

      [lights a cigarette]

      Michael: I used to come out here a lot when I was grounded.

      Christopher: [sniffing because he was crying] Mom told me you were always getting in trouble.

      Michael: She should talk.

      Christopher: [crossly] What's that supposed to mean?

      Michael: Before your mother was a mom, she was my best friend.

      Christopher: [sarcastically] You guys have tea parties together?

      Michael: Yeah, occasionally. Your mother taught me everything I shouldn't know, smartass.

      Christopher: Like how to write like a chick?

      Michael: Oh. That's funny. It's nice to see your balls finally dropped, Christopher.

      [looks away for a second]

      Michael: No, she taught me the art of fishing.

      Christopher: Fishing?

      Michael: [dragging from his cigarette] Mm-hmm.

      Christopher: Fishing is boring.

      Michael: Not the way we used to do it, it wasn't.

      Christopher: Whatever.

      Michael: You want me to show you?