Review: 'Lymelife'
Here we go again. Another movie about the awfulness of the 鈥檅urbs. Derick Martini鈥檚 鈥淟ymelife,鈥� the latest entrant, is set in the late 1970s in suburban Long Island, N.Y., and features the usual constellation of dysfunctional parents, siblings, neighbors. Even the insects 鈥� the ticks that spread Lyme disease throughout the community 鈥� are dysfunctional here. The disease is both literal and metaphorical. Bottom line: Everybody suffers. Fifteen-year-old Scott (Rory Culkin) has a philandering, workaholic father (Alec Baldwin) and an older brother (Kieran Culkin) who鈥檚 about to ship off to war. Scott鈥檚 sort-of girlfriend Adrianna (Emma Roberts) has her own parental baggage, including a father (Timothy Hutton) whose Lyme disease seems the least of his problems. Is it too much to ask that some day somebody will make a movie about 鈥檅urb bliss? Grade: C+ (Rated R for language, some sexual content, violence, and drug use.)
