form y separately published work icon The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Chris Fuhrman , 1994 single work novel
Note: Co-written with American script-writer Jeff Stockwell.
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
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Film Details - Trilogy Entertainment ; Initial Entertainment Group ; Egg Pictures , 2002

Producers:

Jodie Foster, Meg LeFauve, and Jay Shapiro.

Production Companies:

Initial Entertainment Group.
Egg Pictures.
Trilogy Entertainment.

Director of Photography:

Lance Acord.

Editors:

Chris Peppe.

Production Designers:

Gideon Ponte.

Music:

Marco Beltrami.

Cast:

Including Emile Hirsch (Francis Doyle), Kieran Culkin (Tim Sullivan), Vincent D'Onofrio (Father Casey), Jena Malone (Margie Flynn), Jake Richardson (Wade Scalisi), Tyler Long (Joey Anderson), Jodie Foster (Sister Assumpta), and Arthur Bridges (Donny Flynn).

Release Dates:

Premiered in the US on 18 January 2002 (Sundance Film Festival).

Location:

  • Filmed in South Carolina (including Charleston) and North Carolina (including Wilmington).

Awards:

  • Independent Spirit Award (Independent Spirit Awards), Best First Feature (won), 2003.
  • BSFC Award (Boston Society of Film Critics Awards), Best New Filmmaker (won), 2002.
Subjects:
Settings:
  • 1970s
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