Lightning Bugs in a Jar

~ Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget. ~

Overview:

When a mother and son with a caustic history reunite to pack-up their old house, sparks fly as long-buried secrets are revealed, and it might fall upon the shoulders of the son's boyfriend to help heal old wounds.

Director:

Robert Ian Simpson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

melancholy
lgbt
candid
mother son relationship
short film
intimate
intense
gay couple
powerful
sympathetic
boyfriend boyfriend relationship

Cast

Ethan Slater

~ as ~

Ben

Devin McDuffee

~ as ~

Max

Betsy Aidem

~ as ~

Farrah

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
Mother "Farrah" (Betsy Aidem) arrives at her old house to find son "Max" (Devin McDuffee) flagrante delicto with boyfriend "Ben" (Ethan Slater). She's not especially bothered about that, it's just that there are jobs to be done clearing out their former home, and it's soon quite clear that it's not just that that needs a good airing. This crams quite a lot of family tension into twenty minutes but sadly very little of it is innovate or well acted. The dynamic between mother and son is overcooked and contrived and the pacifying interventions of "Ben" predictable. It looks OK, but there's very little natural or convincing about it.