The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Year: 2002

Actors: Jodie Foster, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch

Duration: 104 min

In mid-1970s Savannah, two bright but rebellious boys, Francis Doyle and Tim Sullivan, fight boredom, hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningful beyond the walls of their parish school. Francis, an exceptional artist whose imaginative forays into a fictional universe of good and evil fill his notebooks with comic-book imagery, creates a netherworld of superhero alter egos for the two boys. When the ultra-strict Sister Assumpta seizes their artwork one day, the boys embark upon an obsessed trail of revenge that ultimately changes their lives.—Sujit R. Varma

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama