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Stolen Summer

Stolen Summer
Poster of the movie Stolen Summer.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Pete Jones
Produced by Chris Moore
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Written by Pete Jones
Starring Adi Stein
Aidan Quinn
Bonnie Hunt
Kevin Pollak
Music by Danny Lux
Cinematography Peter Biagi
Edited by Gregg Featherman
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date
  • March 22, 2002 (2002-03-22)
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 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.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.

The domestic total gross for the film was $134,726. Production costs were $1.8 million.


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