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Directed by | Pete Jones |
Produced by | Chris Moore |
Written by | Pete Jones |
Starring | Adi Stein Aidan Quinn Bonnie Hunt Kevin Pollak |
Music by | Danny Lux |
Cinematography | Peter Biagi |
Editing by | Gregg Featherman |
Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Release date(s) | March 22, 2002 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.8 million |
Box office | $134,736 |
Stolen Summer is a 2002 drama film about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing it is the only way he 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.[1] 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 an ironic joke, due to the character's attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism.[2][3]
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Actor | Role |
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Adi Stein | Pete O'Malley |
Mike Weinberg | Danny Jacobsen |
Aidan Quinn | Joe O'Malley |
Bonnie Hunt | Margaret O'Malley |
Kevin Pollak | Rabbi Jacobsen |
Brian Dennehy | Father Kelly |
Ryan Kelley | Seamus O'Malley |
Eddie Kaye Thomas | Patrick O'Malley |
Will Malnati | Eddie O'Malley |
The domestic total gross for the film was $134,736. Production costs were $1.8 million.[4]