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Lightning Bugs in a Jar

Lightning Bugs in a Jar

Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.

2015 · 20 min · ★ 5.7 · Drama

When a mother and son with a caustic history reunite to pack-up their old house, sparks fly as long-buried secrets are revealed, and it might fall upon the shoulders of the son's boyfriend to help heal old wounds.

Directed by Robert Ian Simpson · Written by Robert Ian Simpson

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