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A ThinkFilm release of an Initial Entertainment Group presentation of an Egg Pictures production in association with Trilogy Entertainment Group. Produced by Jodie Foster, Meg LeFauve, Jay Shapiro. Executive producers, Graham King, David A. Jones, John Watson, Pen Densham. Co-producer, Tim Harbert.
Directed by Peter Care. Screenplay, Jeff Stockwell, Michael Petroni, based on the novel by Chris Fuhrman. Camera (FotoKem color), Lance Acord; editor, Chris Peppe; music, Marco Beltrami, Joshua Homme; production designer, Gideon Ponte; costume designer, Marie France; sound (Dolby Digital), Carl Rudisill; animator, Todd McFarlane; animation producer, Terry Fitzgerald; additional animation producers, Eric Radomski, Mike Wolf; assistant director, Scott Cameron; casting, Laray Mayfield. Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (Premieres), Jan. 18, 2002. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 105 MIN.
Tim Sullivan ........................ Kieran Culkin
Margie Flynn ........................Jena Malone
Francis Doyle ........................ Emile Hirsch
Father Casey ................ Vincent D'Onofrio
Sister Assumpta ..................Jodie Foster
Wade ..............................Jake Richardson
Joey Scalisi ................................ Tyler Long
Originally slated for Sundance 2000 but pulled when animated sequences weren't completed in time, "rhe Dangerous lives of Altar Boys" arrives in surprisingly decent shape for a film that's been gathering dust for almost a year. But without the imaginative, visually exciting animated segs by "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane that caused the delays, this adaptation of the late Chris Fuhrman's novel...