A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
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Michael Cuesta
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Cast
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| Paul Dano | ... | Howie Blitzer (as Paul Franklin Dano) | |
| Bruce Altman | ... | Marty Blitzer | |
| Billy Kay | ... | Gary | |
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James Costa | ... | Kevin Cole |
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Tony Michael Donnelly | ... | Brian (as Tony Donnelly) |
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Michelle Carano | ... | Newscaster |
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Tatiana Burgos | ... | Marty's Girlfriend |
| Brian Cox | ... | Big John Harrigan | |
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B. Constance Barry | ... | Anne Harrigan |
| Walter Masterson | ... | Scott | |
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Brad Silnutzer | ... | Henry |
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Bob Gerardi | ... | Clifford |
| Adam LeFevre | ... | Elliot | |
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Frank Rivers | ... | Man with Pizza (as Frank G. Rivers) |
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Anthony F. Peragine | ... | Tough Kid #1 |
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Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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On the Long Island Expressway there are lanes going east, lanes going west, and lanes going straight to hell.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong sexual content involving teens, language and brief violence | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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29 November 2002 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$700,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$82,530, 9 September 2001, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,141,829, 24 February 2002Company Credits
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Howie: L.I.E. Long Island Expressway. You got the lanes going east, and you got the lanes going west. And you also got the lanes going straight to hell. Lot of people died on it. Harry Chapin, Alan Pakula, the movie director. You probably heard of them. But you never heard of Sylvia Blitzer, my mom. She died on a crash on Exit 52. I really miss her. It's taken a lot of people and I hope it doesn't get me.
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The distributor, Lot 47, appealed against the NC-17 rating at the same time as launching a publicity campaign about how arbitrary the rating system was. Both failed. See more »Goofs
Howie doesn't have the earring in his cartilage during the fight with Marty and Kevin. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Howie: L.I.E. Long Island Expressway. You got the lanes going east, and you got the lanes going west. And you also got the lanes going straight to hell. Lot of people died on it. Harry Chapin, Alan Pakula, the movie director. You probably heard of them. But you never heard of Sylvia Blitzer, my mom. She died on a crash on Exit 52. I really miss her. It's taken a lot of people and I hope it doesn't get me.
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The NC17 rated version also has more explicit dialog and is longer when Howie is at Big Jon's house, and Big Jon turns on porn. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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As a sexuality educator I was impressed by the straightforward, nonjudgmental nature of a rather difficult topic. I vacillated between giving this film an 8 or a 9 and decided on 9 because we need more films like this. This topic requires understanding, not acceptance mind you, but real honest understanding. The very fact that it was given an nc-17 rating is part of the problem with our society. There was about as much sex as I've seen in R or even PG-13 movies, the rating was obviously ONLY because of the uncomfortable subject matter. How can society solve a problem that it clearly does not even want to talk about, let alone understand?