Someone whose name has been lost in time said, “Pain reminds us we're alive — love reminds us why.” Based on this observation, it’s safe to say that the characters in debut Director Dennis Lee’s Fireflies in the Garden are very much alive.
Fireflies in the Garden sets us down in a family reunion planned to celebrate a long-delayed graduation from college by family matriarch Lisa Taylor, played by
Julia Roberts (Eat Pray Love), but the reunion is given a dark turn when she dies unexpectedly. The story is told from the point of view of her son, Michael Taylor, played by Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern). Michael, long estranged from his domineering father, played by Willem Dafoe (Once Upon a Time in Mexico), and more recently estranged from his alcoholic wife Kelly, played by Carrie Anne Moss (The Matrix), tries hard not to reconnect with his family or his feelings.
Director Dennis Lee wrote this semi-autobiographical family drama after his mother’s death in 2002.
“It is a story about a family,” Lee said. “I think for most families a mother tends to be, for lack of a better way to describe it, like a picture frame that holds 
everything in the picture together. I think that once that picture frame is gone, things just start falling apart. The question is whether or not this family is going to let things fall apart or do what they can to bring it all back together. In that process, emotions come out and truths come out.”
Article comments
1 - Usman
yes this is a family movie but some scenes are not family movie
2 - LeoOfMars
Your correct Usman. This is not a film to take the kids to see. I should have mentioned that.
3 - Xola X
I agree with USman Ali here!!!!
Cant watch this movie in family
4 - LeoOfMars
I think I'll start including ratings, where they've been assigned, in my film reviews.