Fireflies in the Garden is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Dennis Lee and starring Willem Dafoe, Ryan Reynolds, and Julia Roberts.

It premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on October 14, 2011.

Set in the present day, the film revolves around a three-generation family using numerous flashbacks to childhood, with focus on the relationship between domineering Charles and his son Michael and sister-in-law Jane.

English professor Charles and his son Michael, a successful author, have always had a strained relationship, with each pushing the other away.

On a boyhood road trip, young Michael claims to have lost his glasses, knowing he has them in his pocket.

Michael embarrasses Charles in front of the latter's colleagues by falsely claiming to have written Fireflies in the Garden, a poem by Robert Frost.

The consensus states: "Despite boasting a stellar cast, Fireflies in the Garden is just tedious, dull and predictable melodrama.

"[2] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".