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Lymelife

LYMELIFE (Derick Martini) Rating: NNNN


Set in the late 70s, Lymelife follows the Braggs and the Bartlets, two suburban Long Island families tangled up with each other in messy ways.

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Mickey Bartlett (Alec Baldwin) is looking for action, both of the real estate and sexual variety son Scott (Rori Culkin) is in love with Adrianna Bragg mom Brenda (Jill Hennessy) holds it together until her other son, Jimmy (Kieran Culkin), turns up all shaken and violently stirred, set to ship out to the Falklands.

Meanwhile, Lyme disease has taken Adrianna’s father (Timothy Hutton) out of the workforce, and her mother Melissa (Cynthia Nixon) is sleeping with Mickey.

Teen sexual awakening has become a growth industry in the past few years (Charlie Bartlett, Snow Angels), but it’s never been handled as explicitly or as sensitively as in Lymelife. The mood is sad, made more so by Steven Martini’s achingly beautiful soundtrack, the writing raw – deep emotions often emerge out of silence – but often very funny.

The performances are sensational – Hennessy (TV’s Crossing Jordan) shows a new, very intense side Rori Culkin is a revelation as the super-sensitive teenager. And Baldwin is stunning – brazen and insatiable and still totally likeable.

See it.

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