Movie #7........................."L.I.E."

-- Movie #7 "L.I.E." was very interesting to watch because Paul Dano (from "Little Miss Sunshine" (the nontalking brother) and "We Are Blood") was this little 12-year-old kid who recently lost his mom and trying to deal with the grief and his dad who has gotten himself into trouble with the law. There is a lot of sexual undertones here, but the actors are so good they draw you in, especially Paul Dano and Brian Cox ----- they come across as such fleshed out characters, also Billy Kay who plays Gary. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Might be a bit too disturbing for most watchers. It's just an interesting study of how kids get drawn into situations because they are so fragile.

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L.I.E.Long Island Expressway(2001) UR

A biting and disturbing coming-of-age story. Life is bittersweet along the L.I.E. -- also known as the Long Island Expressway -- as suburban teenager Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin Dano) learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, Howie loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Brian Cox co-stars as an older man who befriends the troubled youth.