Stolen Summer

 ( 2002 Films ) 

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. Stolen Summer New York Times. 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 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.

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Cast

• Adi Stein as Pete O'Malley
• Mike Weinberg as Danny Jacobsen
• Aidan Quinn as Joe O'Malley
• Bonnie Hunt as Margaret O'Malley
• Kevin Pollak as Rabbi Jacobsen
• Brian Dennehy as Father Kelly
• Ryan Jonathan Kelley as Seamus O'Malley
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as Patrick O'Malley
• Will Malnati as Eddie O'Malley

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Box office The domestic total gross for the film was $134,726. Production costs were $1.8 million. Box Office Mojo page for "Stolen Summer" (accessed February 23, 2007).

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Critical reception Rotten Tomatoes gave it a score of 37%. The site's critical consensus is, " Stolen Summer feels like a sugary after-school special stretched out to feature length." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 36 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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