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Opinion / Editorial : A Lymie's review of the movie LymeLife now on DVD and BluRay When you see that Martin Scorsese is the Executive Producer of an independent film like "LymeLife" you know that it must be something special.

Digital Home's top pick on Blu-ray this week is "Lymelife", a comedy/drama that follows two families who crumble when tangled relationships, real estate problems and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia in the late 1970's. Starring Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin and Emma Roberts, the film debuted at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival ...

The cast of MGM's "It Runs In The Family." From top left, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Diana Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas and Rory Culkin.

THE MOVIE: The parallels between Derick Martini's Lymelife and Ang Lee's The Ice Storm are pretty easy ones to draw--both are tales of domestic ennui and awkward coming of age, both take place in Manhattan suburbs in the recent past .

An unhappy family: Scott , left, with Mickey and Brenda Lymelife Directed by Derick Martini.

James McAvoy, Laura Linney and Elizabeth Banks team up for new film. The Details recently signed James McAvoy, Laura Linney, Elizabeth Banks and Anna Friel for the black comedy's cast.

A1 2 - Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Alec Baldwin; rated R ; Broadway Centre Martin Scorsese may have been the executive producer for "Lymelife," but the film more closely resembles the works of Ang Lee and Noah Baumbach.

Why's she good? She's a good indie actress, having made her name in a succession of incredibly hip films from Panic Room to Undertow to the upcoming Adventureland, via occasional bigger outings in Zathura, Jumper and of course Twilight.

Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin and Jill Hennessey star in Lymelife. Photograph by: IMDB, IMDB A coming-of-age story set in a dysfunctional Long Island family in the 1970s.

Lyme disease - that wretched attack on the bloodstream carried by ticks - is one of the more annoying afflictions.

In the late 1970s, "Star Wars" and Lyme disease are hot in the Long Island neighborhood where teen Scott Bartlett resides.

Is Anybody There? John Crowley directs this drama about a morbid 10-year-old English boy who befriends a retired magician , the newest resident in the nursing home that the boy's mother runs.

Sometimes it's all about the execution. Case in point: "Lymelife," a film directed by newcomer Derick Martini and written by him with his brother Steven.

Dawna Lee Heising and John Cox of "Eye on Entertainment" on Time Warner Cable covered the red carpet for the Opening Night of the fabulous Newport Beach Film Festival.

Wunderkinder Derick and Steven Martini, largely dormant since their promising 1999 debut "Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire," come back strong here.