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  1. Plot. Set in the early 1970s in the city of Savannah, Georgia, the film follows the lives of protagonist Francis Doyle, and three of his friends, Tim Sullivan, Wade Scalisi and Joey Anderson. The four boys all attend a private Catholic school named St. Agatha's, which they detest.

  2. An extended scene of Sister Assumpta and Father Casey erasing things from the school's books while the boys dangle the statue outside. The scene where the newsie gives Francis and Tim the angel dust is longer.

    • (14K)
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Peter Care
    • 2002-06-28
  3. Jun 20, 2002 · The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is tremendously effective in moments like this; its opening in the crucifix shadow of a telephone pole captures the feckless kineticism of smart kids in search of experience, and a moment featuring a ghost against an artificial nightscape touches upon the ephemeral melancholy of innocence ironically (and ...

  4. Animated sequences of the action in the comic book story are seamlessly interwoven into the ongoing experiences of the boys as they smoke, drink booze, and steal the school's statue of St. Agatha, an early Christian martyr.

  5. In the Seventies, the fifteen years old troublemaker and leader altar boy Tim Sullivan and his three great friends, Francis Doyle, Wade Scalisi and Joey Anderson, study in a repressive Catholic school, and they hate their nun-teacher Sister Assumpta.

  6. Jul 17, 2013 · Because The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys tries to be all of these and succeeds, emotionally, at none of them. What we have here is the beginnings of a well-constructed dark comedy, in which adolescent boys rebel against the Catholic school they’ve been forced into during the 70’s.

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  8. As the boys straddle the fine line of adolescence where sometimes they act mature and at others they behave in a decidedly juvenile fashion, Francis finds himself drawn to a young and pretty girl, Margie Flynn (JENA MALONE), whose calm demeanor masks all sorts of inner chaos.

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