L.I.E. (2001)

L.I.E. (2001) Country: USA Release Year: 2001 Director: Michael Cuesta Writer: Stephen M. Ryder, Michael Cuesta Gerald Cuesta Language: English Genre: Drama Runtime: 95 min Cast: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman Billy Kay, James Costa, Tony Donnelly Studio: Karma Films Lot 47 Films Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242587/ Available on:

Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.