Stolen Summer is a 2002 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.[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.
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| Directed by | Pete Jones |
| Written by | Pete Jones |
| Produced by | Chris Moore Ben Affleck Matt Damon |
| Starring | Aidan Quinn Bonnie Hunt Kevin Pollak Brian Dennehy |
| Cinematography | Peter Biagi |
| Edited by | Gregg Featherman |
| Music by | Danny Lux |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.8 million |
| Box office | $134,736 |
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 characters attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism.[2][3]
| 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 Jonathan Kelley | Seamus O'Malley |
| Eddie Kaye Thomas | Patrick O'Malley |
| Will Malnati | Eddie O'Malley |
The domestic total gross for the film was $134,726. Production costs were $1.8 million.[4]
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