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Quality of Life

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Brian Burnam
Benjamin Morgan

Directed by: Benjamin Morgan

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 6, 2006

Running Time: 85 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for pervasive language, some drug use and violence

Starring Lane Garrison, Brian Burnam, Luis Saguar, Mackenzie Firgens, Fred Pitts, Andrew A. Rolfes, Tajai, Bryna Weiss, and Ezra Stanley

Two young men develop graffiti into an urban art form on the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District, only to face prosecution and the prospect of imprisonment. A former at-risk kid himself, director Benjamin Morgan's connection to the underground youth of today provides the film with its gritty realism and "drama verite" style. (Quality of Life Film, LLC)

What The Critics Said

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Jane Ganhal

This is a small -- if rough -- gem of a film.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Kev Robertson's gritty camerawork and a musical soundtrack mixing hip-hop, punk and electronica add to the ambience of this impressive shoestring-budget indie.

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70

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

It's Garrison and Burnam who hold the film's center, however, with a natural magnetism. Newcomers both, they take the same clean approach to their roles that their characters bring to their tags.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

While Burnam and Garrison imbue their characters with authentic-feeling frustration and anger, they never succeed in making them especially interesting; it's hard to care in any serious way what becomes of either.

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60

Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen

The ending, which unnecessarily veers toward lumpy, overwrought melodrama, undoes the scrappy elegance the film previously displays in fits and starts.

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60

The New York Times Nathan Lee

A minor movie, modestly made, that develops to a counterculture beat but ends with a status quo conundrum: Is selling out the new keeping it real?

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60

Variety Eddie Cockrell

Picture's cliched underlying story of restless youth plays as too naive for an older audience and too provocative for teens.

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60

Village Voice Joshua Land

Establishes a strong sense of milieu in these street scenes, and while the movie's not without its flaws--much of the dialogue is colorless and Lisa seems a bit too together to be hanging out with Curtis--it's never less than credible.

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30

Film Threat Phil Hall

With a clumsy hip-hop score permeating every free inch of the soundtrack and ugly 16mm cinematography that would never be allowed out of Film School 101, the audio-visual experience is a wreck. The quality of Quality of Life is non-existent.

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