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LYMELIFE
 | QFT
Saturday 24 April 7.00pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director Derick Martini / USA / 2008 / 95mins / Cert 15 / Print source: Cinema Vault | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | “Isn’t it amazing that your whole life can be changed by a bug the size of a pimple on your ass?”
A tick has destroyed the spirit of Charlie Bragg (Timothy Hutton) and has left Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), his wife, open to the predations of her business partner, Mickey (Alec Baldwin). Mickey’s wife knows what’s going on but tries to stand above it. Set in the late 70’s, seen through the innocent eyes of a fifteen year old boy, Scott, Lymelife is a unique take on the dangers of the American Dream.
This funny, sad, violent and sometimes tragic look at first love, family dynamics and divorce weaves an intricate tapestry of American life during a time of drastic economic and emotional change. Directed by Derick Martini and produced by Martin Scorsese, Lymelife does for beer-and-pretzels Long Island what Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm did for key-party Connecticut.
"Intense performances by Rory Culkin and Alec Baldwin are standouts in a movie that brims with vivid supporting turns." VARIETY
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