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Lightning Bugs in a Jar

2015, English. Directed by Robert Ian Simpson & Sara Wolkowitz.

Family is easy to leave but impossible to forget.

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.

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Lightning Bugs in a Jar is streaming on Dekkoo in India.

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Released
19 May 2015
Country
United States of America
Written by
Robert Ian Simpson
melancholylgbtcandidmother son relationshipshort filmintimateintensegay couplepowerfulsympatheticboyfriend boyfriend relationship

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Lightning Bugs in a Jar is streaming on Dekkoo in India. (Checked 10 November 2026.)

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Lightning Bugs in a Jar (2015) was directed by Robert Ian Simpson and Sara Wolkowitz and stars Ethan Slater, Devin McDuffee, Betsy Aidem.

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