In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised.
A mature, insightful and extremely well-acted study.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct 2001
rotten:
Recoiling from L.I.E. is a very human, and frankly a very responsible, reaction.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Oct 2001
fresh:
Cuesta never gives us the satisfaction of fulfilling our expectations; instead he gives us a movie that we can ponder long the road takes its final turn.