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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 14 june 2002 with Emile Hirsch
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
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Add to a movie listThe Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is a 2002 independent comedy-drama film directed by Peter Care and based on a 1994 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by Chris Fuhrman. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, and Vincent D'Onofrio.
The film is about a group of Catholic school friends in the Southern United States in the 1970s who engage in a series of pranks and general mischief. The boys also collaborate on a comic book they call The Atomic Trinity. Interspersed within the film are segments of animated footage based on the comic book.
Fuhrman died of cancer before completing the final revision of the novel. The film is dedicated to his memory.
Synopsis
Set in the 1970s in the rural South, the film follows the lives of protagonist Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch), and three of his friends, Tim Sullivan (Kieran Culkin), Wade Scalisi (Jake Richardson), and Joey Anderson (Tyler Long). The four boys all attend a private Catholic school named St. Agatha's, which they detest. The boys experiment with smoking and drinking, obsess over girls, and play pranks on their teachers, such as stealing their school's statue of St. Agatha and keeping it in their clubhouse. The four friends dedicate much of their time to a comic book of their own creation titled The Atomic Trinity in order to escape the monotony and avoid the difficulties in their own lives.Actors
Emile Hirsch
(Francis Doyle)
Kieran Culkin
(Tim Sullivan)
Jena Malone
(Margie Flynn)
Jodie Foster
(Sister Assumpta)
Vincent D'Onofrio
(Father Casey)
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