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Movie Review - 'Lymelife'

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From: getthebigpicture.net

Lymelife

Starring Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin, and Emma Roberts
Directed by Derrick Martini
Rated R

I think Swine Flu is made up. I don't know why it popped up now and I don't know who did it, but it smacks of fearmongering more than legitimate, justifiable concern. Compare it to the Spanish Flu pandemic of the early 20th century, which killed somewhere between 40 and 50 million people. Now that's something to be afraid of.

In Lymelife, Brenda Bartlett (Jill Hennessey) is a little overprotective of her son, Scott (Rory Culkin), afraid that the teenager will contract lyme disease from walking through the woods near their New York home, especially since there is some cause for concern closer to home.

The Bartlett's neighbor, Charlie Bragg (Timothy Hutton), has developed a pretty severe case of lyme disease, and now spends most of his time staring out windows in his basement and hallucinating about deer. Apparently, that's how he contracted it in the first place.

The lyme disease isn't the story but the window dressing, and while it's funny to see Culkin duct taped into his clothes so the ticks can't get at him, this is really a coming-of-age story that doesn't come of age. Scott has a strained relationship with his mother and his father (Alec Baldwin).

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