THE YOUTH IN US
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Synopsis
Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Kelli Garner (Thumbsucker, The Aviator) and Lukas Haas (Witness, Last Days) star in Joshua Leonard's tragic love story about a couple who confront the future by looking into the past. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
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Director and Cast
- Starring: Kelli Garner as Alicia
- Starring: Lukas Haas as Jack
- Director: Joshua Leonard
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Special Features
Based on the novel by Carol Shields, The Republic of Love is a romantic comedy about the barriers facing the lucky and the unlucky in love in the 21st century. Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host whose unconventional upbringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love and marry. Fay is an academic whose expectations are impossibly high as a result of the living perfection that is her parents' marriage. The characters connect in a maze of malls, condos and family homes, underpinning the idea that 'geography is destiny' and that each of us has our own 'republic', where lives intersect.



