Stolen Summer
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Director Pete Jones Initial DVD release September 24, 2002 Duration Country United States | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Budget 1.8 million USD Writer Pete Jones Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 22, 2002 (2002-03-22) Cast (Joe O'Malley), (Margaret O'Malley), (Rabbi Jacobsen), (Patrick O'Malley), Lisa Dodson (Mrs. Jacobsen), Mike Weinberg (Danny Jacobsen)Similar movies Speakeasy (2002), Arizona Summer (2003), Girl in Progress (2012), Playing for Keeps (1986), Adventureland (2009) Tagline You saw the back-stabbing. Now see the final cut. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stolen Summer is a 2002 drama film about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing that it is the only way the Jewish boy will get to Heaven. Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and sponsored by HBO. Project Greenlight aired on HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from approximately seven thousand entries, and the production of the film in Chicago in 2001.
The film's casting department considered the casting of the Jewish Adi Stein as the Catholic Pete O'Malley an ironic joke, due to the character's attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism.
Box office
The domestic total gross for the film was $134,726. Production costs were $1.8 million.
References
Stolen Summer WikipediaStolen Summer IMDb Stolen Summer themoviedb.org