L.I.E.

A teenaged boy in desperate need of a father figure finds one in a place no one should ever have to look in this controversial drama. Howie (Paul Franklin Dano) is a 15-year-old who has been emotionally at sea ever since the death of his mother in an auto accident several years before. Howie's ...more

A difficult, tricky subject is given thoughtful, droll treatment by terrific first-time writer/director Michael Cuesta in this funny, revealing look at the unlikely bond between an aging ex-Marine who happens to like very young boys and a deserted 15-year old who enters his life. Instead of reveling in smutty put-ons and generalizations about pedophilia and teenage rebellion, the movie looks deeper at the complexities of its highly intriguing male characters and becomes an acute study of ...more