The Treehouse We Left In The Ghoulburn is a 1992 American Boyhood Coming of age film written by Ivan Raimi & Sam Raimi and directed by Sam Raimi based off the classic 1990 Novel of the same name.
It features a young Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Kistch, Macauly Culkin, Vanessa Lee Chester, Chelan Simmons and Chad Michael Murray heading the protagonist character ensemble of the film.
The film also features infamous beatles former Paul McCartney, Karen Grassle, Susan Sullivan, Joanna Pettet, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree, Michele Lee, Jenny O'Hara, Famous Singer Jimi Hendrix, Kevin Dillon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Viola Davis, Jami Gertz, Alan Cumming, Martin Lawrence and featuring Chris Penn.
The Film is set between the time periods of the boys being boys in the 1960's and the remaining ones as adults in the 1990's.
Plot
Four boys from different backgrounds and different ordeals find sanctuary in the strong friendship they have with each other in the small fictional town of Ghoulburn, Maine.
The boys go through an unforgettable summer of adventures and make a cow they will never seperate no matter what.
A family feud begins as the boys run off at the end of Autumn upon three of the boys families announcing they will be leaving the small countryside town of Ghoulburn in set of settling down in three different townships whilest the fourth's family will remain in the town.
In the end boys accept the move and go forth with their parents.
The boys remain in contact and rarely visit each other apart from two of which whom end up living together upon's mother committing suicide.
The boy ultimatley himself attempts to intervene in a group of boys beating upon a Manhattan boy for having the orientation of being homosexual.
As a result he saves the boy but suffers a fatal hit which consists of him being struck in the cheek and reverting him to smacking his head down upon the sidewalk.
The other boy to whom he was living with falls in love with an accountant woman and they bear two children and move out to Ghoulburn.
There he reconciles with the boy of whom was left stuck in the town with his obese now schitzophrenic mother and the other boy whom ran his way back to Ghoulburn and committed Grand Theft Auto which landed him prison.
The boys revisit the treehouse they had all built as kids before the month of their seperation.
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Martin "Marty Man" Claus
- Chad Michael Murray as Yarnley "Yarn Man" Merrados
- Robert Pattinson as Luston "Lusty Man" Kobet
- Vanessa Lee Chester as Deborah "Debbie Girl" Easton
- Taylor Kitsch as Benjamin "Benny Man" Crambton
- Chelan Simmons as Elaina Claus
- Paul McCartney as Hopeless Singer father Hartlett Claus
- Karen Grassle as Disgruntled, Dysfunctional Mother Harriett Claus
- Susan Sullivan as Lesbian Mother Lindsey Merrados
- Joanna Pettet as Lesbian Other Mother Keena Merrados
- Isaac Hayes as Abusive Adoptive Father Easton Crambton
- Richard Roundtree as Abusive Alcholic Adoptive Uncle Neaton Crambton
- Michele Lee as Lergina Nocaldine The Wife of Easton
- Jenny O'Hara as Coraldine Kobet
- Kevin Dillon as Psychotic Appleby Crambton
Soundtrack
The End Credits
- Since I Don't Have You- The Skyliners (Final End Credits Song)
- Donna- Ritchie Valens (Second End Credits Featured Song)
- Rhythm of the Falling Rain- The Cascades
The Songs played of the 1990's
- Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
- Mysterious Ways- U2
- Under the Bridge- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Rump Shaker- Wrekz -N-Effect
- Jump Around- House of Pain
- End of the Road- Boyz II Men
- Tennesse- Arrested Development
- Tears In Heaven- Eric Clapton
- Disappear- INXS
- Groove Is In The Heart- Dee-lite
- Piece of My Heart- Tara Kemp
- Just Another Dream- Cathy Dennis
- Shiny Happy People- R.E.M.
The Songs played of the 1960's
- It's My Party- Lesley Gore
- Be My Baby- The Ronettes
- Poetry In Motion- Johnny Tillotson
- Angel- Cliff Richard