"Fantastisk morsom, bidende og rørende"  AOK

* * * * *  "Ekstremt velspillet og meget morsomt"  Per Juul Carlsen, DR Filmland

* * * * *  "Utroligt spændende billeder"  Claus Hesselberg, TV2 Lorry Lounge 

* * * * *  "Skøn, fængende... fortælles med en god grydeskefuld melankoli og humor"  Jonathan Heldorf, KBH

* * * * *  "Formidabel... fantastisk præcis. Lymelife er kort sagt en lille film med noget stort i sig"  Andreas Baumann, Nosferadio

* * * *  "Fremragende skuespillere... Forfriskende skildring af desillusionen i storbyens randområder - minder om 'Revolutionary Road', 'American Beauty', 'The Ice Storm' og 'Igby Goes Down'"  Erik Jensen, Politiken

* * * *  "Galgenhumoristisk og overbevisende"  Ebbe Iversen, Berlingske Tidende

* * * *  "Fyldt med vid og bid og kejtet humor og charme"  Søren Hermansen, Kristeligt Dagblad

* * * *  "Skildret med fin ømhed og såvel underfundig som mere robust humor"  Jakob Levinsen, Jyllands-Posten

* * * *  "Det stærke spil og den ejendommelige fortællestil er filmens force og er med til at placere den blandt sværvægterne i genren" Kirja Marie Touborg Jensen, Cinemazone

* * * *  "Varme og humor udstråles i hver eneste scene"  Marthe Aspelund, Byenkalder

* * * *  "Lægger sig op ad den succesfulde 'The Squid and the Whale' med sin underspillede komik. Samtidig trækker den også på elementer fra 'The Ice Storm'" DR2 Premiere

"Yderst velspillet... udretter små stemningsmættede mirakler"  Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard, Information

Vinder Toronto Int. Film Festival: International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI).

Martin Scorsese og Alec Baldwin har produceret LYMELIFE, et både morsomt og bidende drama om en dysfunktionel familie. Filmen er instrueret af den debuterende Derick Martini og skrevet i samarbejde med hans bror, Steven Martini, baseret på deres barndomsoplevelser da de voksede op i forstadslivet på Long Island.

LYMELIFE er historien om den mørke side af forstads-paradiset og fortæller om to familier sidst i 1970'erne.
Filmens hovedperson er den følsomme 15-årige Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), hvis familie får vendt op og ned på livet, da der udbryder borrelia, også kaldet Lymes sygdom (lyme-disease) i nabolaget, hvilket spreder paranoia og angst blandt folk. Scotts forældre er den arbejdsomme far, Mickey (Alec Baldwin), og den overbeskyttende mor, Brenda (Jill Hennessy). Forældrene står overfor at skulle skilles, mens Scotts storebror, Jim (Kieran Culkin), er på vej til at blive sendt ud i krig. Scott har forelsket sig i nabopigen Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts), der tilsyneladende er den eneste person i hele verden, der forstår de problemer, Scott går og tumler med. Men også Adrianna har sit at slås med i form af en bekymret mor, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), der forsøger at dække over en løbsk kærlighedsaffære og faderen, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), som er ved at trække sig ind i sin egen verden på grund af bivirkningerne af sygdommen.
 
Rollelisten tæller navne som Alec Baldwin (Det' indviklet, The Departed, The Aviator, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Getaway), Rory Culkin (Signs, Mean Creek), Jill Hennessy (Autumn in New York), Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down, Æblemostreglementet), Emma Roberts (Aquamarine, Blow, Wild Child, Hundehotellet), Cynthia Nixon (Sex & The City 1&2, The Out-of-Towners, Marvin's Room) og et gensyn med Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, Falken og snemanden, The Good Shephard, Kinsey).

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
LYMELIFE was born out of what I call "creative frustration". My very first movie I wrote and produced but did not direct, was a blessing for my career but a curse for my psyche. I was 23 or 24, had only written for theatre, and wanted to make a film. So I decided to write a film that could be shot on a miniscule budget, used friends, family and favors to pull it together, and made it happen. The end result was "Smiling Fish And Goat On Fire" which was shot in twelve brutal days, on film, in multiple locations and in the end the story actually worked! However, making a story simply "work" began to wear on me. I felt like I wasted a precious opportunity to tell a more meaningful story. And although I was gainfully employed as a writer for hire, I couldn't shake that regret. Then I realized the reason I was unable to do more than simply make a story work on film was because I hadn't dug deep enough into my own personal experiences in life. That's when my brother and I sat down to write LYMELIFE.
We drew from a deep well of very meaningful people, places and events that we actually experienced during my childhood. Meaningful to us, I mean -- I can only hope it will be as meaningful to audiences. In essence, I "came of age" in the early nineties in the suburbs of New York which felt like growing up amongst the ruins of Rome. Families and relationships that were loving, thriving, wealthy and intact a decade or two ago had somehow come apart at the seams and I always wondered why. After some digging I discovered that during the early seventies many lower middle class Americans (a hodgepodge of Italians, Jews, Irish etc.) who were living in Brooklyn and Queens were rapidly pursuing and accomplishing their version of the American Dream. Things were changing. Urban sprawling, among other booming industries, were providing these men with opportunities they never had. The more ambitious of these men took advantage of these opportunities and began doggedly and successfully capturing their versions of the dream.
That was the upside. The downside was that this dogged, yet earnest, pursuit kept these men away from their families in order for them to continue building their mini empires. As you can imagine, not having a father around put great strains on the family unit. And as Jill Hennessy's character says in the film "more money, more problems", this theme spoke to me. It's woven into the fabric of the film and was the spark I needed to write about it.
So, essentially this story is an examination of both sides of the American Dream – the wonderful feeling of success and the dreaded feeling of failure. Through telling this story, especially being able to direct it at a rapid pace of 22 days while working intimately with my actors, I learned a lot about myself, my own family and most importantly: in life not only do things constantly change but people's actions and behaviors are not simply black or white. There's a lot of grey in there. Enjoy the film. – Derick Martini, Director