Cost of a Soul
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  • Summary: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. While DD struggles to make an honest living, his older brother, Darnell, has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin. DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from following in Darnell’s dangerous footsteps. Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same slum they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence. (Studio: Relativity Media)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 5 out of 9
  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    May 19, 2011
    75
    If Martin Scorsese updated "The Roaring Twenties," the classic Jimmy Cagney movie about World War I vets who come home and find that the only jobs available are with gang lords and bootleggers, it would look a lot like Sean Kirkpatrick's rookie feature, Cost of a Soul.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    May 20, 2011
    60
    Though it's rough around the edges, it is also, undeniably, a nervy, confident debut.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    May 17, 2011
    30
    Kirkpatrick's color-deficient visual scheme is sturdy, but it can't compensate for a mechanical, unsubtle script.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    May 24, 2011
    30
    As is, the emotional elements explored by Cost of a Soul, and the devices it employs, seem trite and occasionally shoplifted from better-told tales.

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  1. Jumpinjohn
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    I think most of these critics were smokin something, because the sold out theatre I went to; the audience (REAL PEOPLE) loved it. Jumpinjohn from Philly.… Expand

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