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Lightning Bugs in a Jar (2015)

May 19, 2015 Drama 0h 20m
60%
User Score
9.3/10

Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.

Overview

When a mother and son with a caustic history reunite to pack-up their old house, sparks fly as long-buried secrets are revealed, and it might fall upon the shoulders of the son's boyfriend to help heal old wounds.

Robert Ian Simpson
Director
Sara Wolkowitz
Director

Top Billed Cast

Ethan Slater
Ethan Slater

Ben
Devin McDuffee
Devin McDuffee

Max
Betsy Aidem
Betsy Aidem

Farrah

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on April 3, 2024

Mother "Farrah" (Betsy Aidem) arrives at her old house to find son "Max" (Devin McDuffee) flagrante delicto with boyfriend "Ben" (Ethan Slater). She's not especially bothered about that, it's just that there are jobs to be done clearing out their former home, and it's soon quite clear that it's not just that that needs a good airing. This crams quite a lot of family tension into twenty minutes but sadly very little of it is innovate or well acted. The dynamic between mother and son is overcooked and contrived and the pacifying interventions of "Ben" predictable. It looks OK, but there's very little natural or convincing about it....

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