Stolen Summer (2002)

Directed by

Pete Jones

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Catholic boy befriends a Jewish boy who is dying. The Catholic boy tries to convert his friend, thinking it will save his soul.

earnestgentlelightheartedpoignantslow-pacedcontemplativewarmsentimental

What happens

Stolen Summer is a 2002 American drama film about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing that it is the only way the Jewish boy will get to Heaven. Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and sponsored by HBO. Project Greenlight aired on HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from approximately seven thousand entries, and the production of the film in Chicago in 2001. The film's casting department considered the casting of the Jewish Adi Stein as the Catholic Pete O'Malley to be an ironic joke, due to the characters attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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