Stolen Summer (2002)

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Studio: Miramax Films

Rating: PG

Release Date: Mar 22, 2002

Running Time: 90 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak, Adi Stein, Mike Weinberg, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Brian Dennehy, Peggy Roeder, Thomas Ian Nicholas

director: Pete Jones

The friendship of two young Chicago boys, Irish Catholic Pete and Jewish Danny, is challenged when Danny discovers that he's dying. He and Pete team up to figure out how they can guarantee they'll get into Heaven, making a list of ten good deeds they call the "Decathlon of Heaven".

February 13, 2002

Coming soon to a multiplex near you is Stolen Summer, a cringingly earnest, totally unremarkable fable about an eight-year-old Irish-Catholic boy, Pete (Adi Stein), who tries to convert Danny (Mike Weinberg), the dying son of a rabbi (Kevin Pollak), so Danny can get into heaven. Pete's mom (Bonnie Hunt) and his fireman dad (Aidan Quinn) put in their two cents, along with the parish priest (Brian Dennehy). But Pete, living in Chicago in 1976, is wiser than his elders in the way of right-minded,…