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Lightning Bugs in a Jar
Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.
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.
- Original title
- Lightning Bugs in a Jar
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Apr 3, 2024 · via TMDB
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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Ethan Slater
Ben
Devin McDuffee
Max
Betsy Aidem
Farrah
Aaron Wertheimer
Assistant Director
Robert Ian Simpson
Director
Sara Wolkowitz
Director
Robert Ian Simpson
Producer
Sara Wolkowitz
Producer
Robert Ian Simpson
Writer
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