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Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 104 mins

  • Director: Peter Care
  • Writer: Chris Fuhrman; Jeff Stockwell
  • Producer: Lisa Buono; Pen Densham

CGiii Comment

It's a fine film with fine performance interlaced with unnecessary fantasy animation.

Powerful stuff nonetheless.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In mid-1970s Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle and Tim Sullivan, fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Francis, an exceptional artist whose imaginative forays into a fictional universe of good and evil fill his notebooks with comic-book imagery, creates a netherworld of superhero alter egos for the two boys. When the ultra-strict Sister Assumpta seizes their artwork one day, the boys embark upon an obsessed trail of revenge that ultimately changes their lives.

Cast & Characters

Emile Hirsch as Francis Doyle;
Kieran Culkin as Tim Sullivan;
Vincent D'Onofrio as Father Casey;
Jena Malone as Margie Flynn;
Jake Richardson as Wade Scalisi;
Tyler Long as Joey Anderson;
Jodie Foster as Sister Assumpta;
Arthur Bridgers as Donny Flynn;
Scott Simpson as Newsie;
Melissa Suzanne McBride as Mrs. Doyle;
Michael Harding as Mr. Doyle;
Chandler McIntyre as Naturalist;
Jeffrey West as Professor Sullivan;
Yvonne Erickson as Mrs. Sullivan;
Nicky Olson as Colin Gibbney