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Fireflies in the Garden
Directed by
Dennis Lee
R
2008
1h 39m
Drama
6.4
21%
45%
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The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.
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Cast of Fireflies in the Garden
Ryan Reynolds
Michael Waechter
Willem Dafoe
Charles Waechter
Emily Watson
Jane Lawrence
Julia Roberts
Lisa Waechter
Hayden Panettiere
Young Jane
Carrie-Anne Moss
Kelly Hanson
Cayden Boyd
Young Michael Taylor
Ioan Gruffudd
Addison
Shannon Lucio
Ryne
Chase Ellison
Christopher Lawrence
Brooklynn Proulx
Leslie
George Newbern
Jimmy
Diane Perella
Flight Attendant
Natalie Karp
Social Worker
Babs George
Nana
Frank Ertl
Morgan Duncan
Dennis Lee
Director / Writer
Sukee Chew
Producer
Vanessa Coifman
Producer
Marco Weber
Producer
Fireflies in the Garden Ratings & Reviews
Colleen
July 22, 2025
Best movie in a long time. Ryan Renolds your best as well in my opinion
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This histrionic family drama must have looked good on paper to attract such a big-name cast, but on the screen it comes off as glib, rushed, and underdeveloped.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Julia Roberts plays ultra-sensitive artiste Ryan Reynolds' noble mother-and that should basically tell you all you need to know about this misguided soapy bunch of bollocks which somehow made its way off the shelf into theatres.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This locally shot weeper is unhappy in myriad ways, few of which manage to coalesce around its heart-stung core.
Film.com
William Goss
The emotional effectiveness varies from moment to moment between not pushing too hard or simply not pulling hard enough.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
This stale drama is finally getting a limited release and will prove just how limited it is to the poor saps who pay to see it.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A dreadful exercise in navel-gazing that resides in a particularly trite corner of Pat Conroy-ville.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A dispiriting rehash of dysfunctional family clichés that seems to last longer than Thanksgiving Day dinner.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An unrelentingly grim drama about yet another dysfunctional family.
Movies.com
Dave White
Just when you're hitting your tolerance breaking point for these people and their nonstop bellyaching and yelling and baffling hatred for one another, the equally baffling reconciliation kicks in. What just happened?
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
The constant shifting between past and present is handled so badly that it adds absolutely nothing to the proceedings.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The relationships are lived-in and complex, with the same hopelessness that we find in real life. People don't change.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Lee doesn't trust his storytelling or the audience.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
"Fireflies" is probably too convoluted to pave the way for more roles of this sort, but watching Reynolds get inside Michael's pain, you hope it won't be long until something will.
AV Club
Alison Willmore
[A] middling effort about the fights and reconnections experienced by a family gathered due to an unexpected tragedy...
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A fraught family drama that shows us the same family in past and present, 22 years apart. It might have been more effective if it had followed a chronological order.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
There's a sense of emotional paralysis about Dennis Lee's Fireflies in the Garden.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Despite an A-list roster, the performances are universally one-note, a fact largely attributable to a script overflowing with blunt dialogue and heavy-handed symbolism.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The movie is one long argument, tiresome and repetitive, that produces more heat than light.
Variety
Alissa Simon
Despite the mega-wattage of pic's starry cast, theatrical prospects seem dim for this clumsy melodrama, which looks and sounds no better than an average made-for-cabler.
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