L.I.E.

L.I.E.

  • Director: Michael Cuesta
  • Writer: Stephen M. Ryder,Michael Cuesta,Gerald Cuesta
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 29, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: LIE
  • "LIE" is a feature film directed by Michael Cuesta and starring Paul Franklin Dano , Bruce Altman , Billy Kay and Brian Cox . It was released in the United States on January 20, 2001.
    The film tells the story of the 16-year-old boy Howie fell in love with Gary, and the two wandered around the world in order to escape the pursuit of John the Great.

    Details

    • Release date November 29, 2002
    • Filming locations 217 Broadway, Amityville, Long Island, New York, USA
    • Production companies Alter Ego Entertainment, Belladonna Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $700,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,138,836

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $82,530

    Gross worldwide

    $1,846,059

    Movie reviews

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    • By Preston 2022-02-20 08:02:29

      Long Island Highway Junior

      "Long Island Highway Boys" is a relatively alternative American independent film. LIE is the abbreviation of Long Island Expressway. As the 16-year-old Howie, the protagonist of the film, said, on the Long Island Expressway, there are roads going east, there are roads going west, and there are roads leading directly to hell. Howie's mother died in a car accident on this road when he was a child. Howie, who lacks family affection, is experiencing adolescence of confusion, theft, sex,...

    • By Nikki 2022-02-20 08:02:29

      Long Island Highway Junior

      "Long Island Highway Boys" is a relatively alternative American independent film. LIE is the abbreviation of Long Island Expressway. As the 16-year-old boy Howie, the protagonist of the film said, on the Long Island Expressway, there are roads to the east, roads to the west, and roads that lead directly to hell. Howie's mother died in a car accident on this road when he was a child. Howie, who lacks family affection, is experiencing adolescence of confusion, theft, sex, homosexuality, betrayal,...

    • By Edd 2022-02-20 08:02:29

      As if I saw the melancholy teenager walking in front

      This is a palpitating movie. It was beyond my expectation. It was beyond imagination~~ I didn’t think it was enough after watching this movie n times. I really want to study each lens in depth, after watching it. Facing the empty mirror that appeared in the movie, his thoughts were complicated.
      Actor is not US-based, development of the plot nothing exciting, but it is everywhere caught caught the hearts of the audience
      I saw a young boy walking on the highway on Long Island, maybe he...

    • By Cathryn 2022-02-20 08:02:29

      Long Island Highway, Junior

      On the Long Island Expressway, there are lanes going east, and lanes going west, and lanes straight go to hell. - Howie is

      standing on the viaduct, watching the traffic going east or west below, and gently lifts a One foot gently opened his arms.

      He was walking on the way home with his hands on the shoulder straps of his schoolbag, passing by the black FBI car with his father escorted by him. Back in the big empty house at home, with messy drawers and empty paper bags, the...

    • By Thurman 2022-02-20 08:02:29

      no

      It's easy to think of child prostitution after watching this movie. In fact, the film shows in many places that this group of children have matured sexual development, and their minds are not as ignorant as usually imagined. A boy has made his sister pregnant, which shows that he is already an adult. Then, did the fault he committed lie in himself or in society? The children are discussing the answers to the questions with each other, but what society gives them is a so-called fear story of...

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    • By Wilbert 2022-04-22 07:01:48

      Saw it a long time ago. The feeling of forgetting the years of Paul and Brain is really...

    • By Bernadette 2022-04-21 09:03:11

      The music is good, but boring. The boy in the film has always been...

    • By Nico 2022-04-21 09:03:11

      It's a low-budget independent film that can be seen, and the pictures describing the highway are superb, blurred and vivid; the background music seems to be miserable LSD, full of the illusion effect caused by the hormones of puberty. Rather than labeling it as gay, it is more about youthful ravings and meditations, but it seems that starting from "My Private Idaho", I still don't quite understand the narrative method of American gay films, the long and bland, sporadic...

    • By Albertha 2022-04-21 09:03:11

      The script is good, it can be worth 5 stars, the subject matter involves sensitive topics, but it is very...

    • By Zechariah 2022-04-21 09:03:11

      The troubles of teenage...

    Movie plot

    In a small town on the outskirts of Long Island, there is a teenage boy named Howie ( Paul Franklin Dano ) . After his mother was killed in a car accident, his father Marty ( Bruce Altman ) immediately found a new love. Asked about his son.
    In order to seek excitement and pass the boring days, Howi often breaks into the house with his friends to steal other people's belongings. The best thing with him is a beautiful boy named Gary...y
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    Evaluation action

    The film is an independently produced low-cost film. It stretches the lens to a corner of human nature that Hollywood film companies dare not touch. Through the shaping of several three-dimensional characters, it subtly reflects the collision between the soul of the teenager and reality, revealing The contradiction between personal desire and social morality. The most successful part of the film is the creation of a pedophile who has...
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    Movie quotes

    • Gary: I don't have a father. I have an asshole.

    • Brian: Howie, if you do stuff with guys, that's gay stuff. If you do stuff with girls, that's straight stuff.

    • Gary: I think he's trying to say it's not politically correct to fuck your sister.

      Kevin Cole: We're not even old enough to *vote*, so that's a stupid joke Blitzer.