Review of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) by Daniel G — 28 Jun 2008
There is something about a 'coming of age movie' that can get to be irritating after a while; nothing about Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys is annoying. Emile Hirsch and Kieran Culkin are a great team of Catholic schoolboys, trying to grow up and learn what life is all about.
Jena Malone is fantastic as Hirsch's disturbed love interest, and Jodi Foster does it again as an evil nun out to get the boys (or so they perceive). Mixed between actual film and comic book-like sequences, The Dangerous Live of Alter Boys is a superb (yet unconventional) look at growing up and learning that not everything is as easy as one prayer away.
This review of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) was written by Daniel G on 28 Jun 2008.
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys has generally received positive reviews.
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