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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys is a 2002 film directed by Peter Care. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film is based on a novel by Chris Fuhrman.

The film is about a group of Catholic school friends who engage in a series of pranks and general mischievousness. The boys also collaborate on a comic book they call The Atomic Trinity. Interspersed within the film are segments of animated footage based on the comic book.

Fuhrman died of cancer before completing the final draft of the novel. The film is dedicated to his memory.

Plot

Tagline: Forgive me father, for I am 14.

The four "altar boys" in the film each have their alter egos in the comic book fantasy of Francis, Major Screw (the subject of many jokes such as "Major Screw? He screws guys! How sick is that!"), Captain Ass-Kicker, the Muscle (later Skeleton boy) and Bracken. The group of super-heros inhabit a world that is over run by evil motor biking nuns led by Peg-Leg (Sister Assumpta). When they first arrive they encounter the nuns and Sorcerella (Margie). Siter Assumpta is an overly strict teacher at the boys' school who acts as the arch enemy. Margie is the love interest of Francis, she turns out later to believe herself slightly insane and had made her older brother rape her on several occasions. When the group visit a zoo with their school, they see a puma and an idea forms.

They plan to unleash a puma in the school and to move it from the zoo enclosure by using a winch. They soon test the winch by removing the statue of St. Agatha from the top of the school.

After Francis and Margie had been going out for some time she tells him of the situation with her brother. Francis, who can no longer keep that revelation to himself, tells Tim his friend. Later he himself blurts it out to Margie's brother when he bullies him in Gym. In way of revenge, he gives the Atomic Trinity book (containing "blasphemous and disgusting" pictures such as Nunzilla and "two evil babes trying to figure out 69) to Sister Assumpta who proptly expels Francis. In order to get it back Francis and his friends go to the zoo to knock out the puma with some homemade tranquilisers. They see a puma and tranquilise it. Tim jumps in to check if it is out and gets attacked by a second puma. Tim later dies from his wounds.

Cast

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