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Stolen Summer
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Wikipedia article
'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.[https://movies.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9D03E6DE1E38F931A15750C0A9649C8B63 Stolen Summer] 'New York Times'. '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 characters attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism.
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The domestic total gross for the film was $134,726. Production costs were $1.8 million.[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stolensummer.htm Box Office Mojo page] for "Stolen Summer" (accessed February 23, 2007).
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