L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway, L.I.E.) (2001)

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"I've watched this coming-of-age story a few times. Good film with a few themes."

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"Right out of the gate this film was plagued with an immediate Scarlet Letter by the MPAA dubbing it a ludicrous NC-17 stamping. Yet, oddly enough the film contains no sex, no nudity, not even any real explicit violence??? The MPAA's condemning of this movie more seems to stem from it's controversial subject matter, as well as it's poor timing to be released, on the day of the Twin Tower attacks. But it helped me a lot as I happen to be the same age as the young actor in the movie, and the film "

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"While there are many changes that comes with the coming of age, the hardest has to be the psychological. Reality tends to hit hard at this point in any young person's stage of growth, but especially if life decides to throw some of it's hardest knocks at this same time. And it's during times like this that a pliable adolescent mind can become easy prey for anyone with more predatory motives. Unless, amidst the chaos, that young person can find a way to deal with the barraging uncertainties of th"