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Lightning Bugs in a Jar

Film

Lightning Bugs in a Jar

Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.

5.7

0h 20m

2015

“Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.”

Synopsis

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

Sara Wolkowitz

Drama

melancholylgbtcandidmother son relationshipshort filmintimateintensegay couplepowerfulsympatheticboyfriend boyfriend relationship

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Cast & Crew

Ethan Slater

Ethan Slater

as Ben

Devin McDuffee

Devin McDuffee

as Max

Betsy Aidem

Betsy Aidem

as Farrah

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