Bronx-2
Joined Jun 1999
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Bronx-2's rating
One has to wonder why the MPAA decided that a movie with no nudity, no overt sex and no carnage should carry the "kiss of death" NC-17 rating.
Boyish teen Howie is a smitten by his knowlingly seductive buddy Gary to the point that he will follow him anywhere, even when he burgles homes of neighbors on Long Island. With his mother gone (claimed by an accident at the Dix Hills exit on the Long Island Expressway) and his father negligent and self-destructive, Gary is as close to family as Howie has, until he meets ex-Marine and chicken-hawk Big John, with his orange muscle-car Olds 442, who has already had Gary and most of the teenage boys at the local pickup spot. But "BJ" (the vanity plate on his Olds) does not know quite what to make of Howie, who is both seductive and vulnerable -- and smart.
The emotions are complicated in this film. Is Howie infatuated with Gary or with wanting to BE Gary. Why does jean-sniffing Big John mother this motherless boy rather molest him? Can Big John be both a pillar of his community and a predator of its youths?
L.I.E. is not a perfect film, but a good one. Worth seeing twice for the details you miss the first time.
Boyish teen Howie is a smitten by his knowlingly seductive buddy Gary to the point that he will follow him anywhere, even when he burgles homes of neighbors on Long Island. With his mother gone (claimed by an accident at the Dix Hills exit on the Long Island Expressway) and his father negligent and self-destructive, Gary is as close to family as Howie has, until he meets ex-Marine and chicken-hawk Big John, with his orange muscle-car Olds 442, who has already had Gary and most of the teenage boys at the local pickup spot. But "BJ" (the vanity plate on his Olds) does not know quite what to make of Howie, who is both seductive and vulnerable -- and smart.
The emotions are complicated in this film. Is Howie infatuated with Gary or with wanting to BE Gary. Why does jean-sniffing Big John mother this motherless boy rather molest him? Can Big John be both a pillar of his community and a predator of its youths?
L.I.E. is not a perfect film, but a good one. Worth seeing twice for the details you miss the first time.