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  • 2012
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 37 m
Player Hating: A Love Story

Summary Player Hating: A Love Story is a feature length documentary film that delves deeply and intimately into the lives of some of society’s forgotten citizens whose desperate attempts to flee their challenged existences grow harder each day. Thirty minutes from downtown Manhattan lies a forgotten community — Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY --- w...

  • 2012
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • 1 h 37 m

Player Hating: A Love Story

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary Player Hating: A Love Story is a feature length documentary film that delves deeply and intimately into the lives of some of society’s forgotten citizens whose desperate attempts to flee their challenged existences grow harder each day. Thirty minutes from downtown Manhattan lies a forgotten community — Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY --- w...

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75
Apr 2, 2012
One of the more intimate and revealing looks at American projects ever made; it's assured and empathetic without indulging in fashionable white guilt.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 5, 2012
A sad chronicle of absent fathers and messed-up mothers, drugs as currency and violence as the period at the end of every argument.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 3, 2012
A young boy's nonchalant attitude toward having a friend stick a loaded gun in his mouth as well as a man's numerous knife scars courtesy of his beloved wife definitely cut through the clichés about "thug life" to capture how violence is an integral, corrosive part of inner-city life.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Apr 6, 2012
It's a sobering slice of life that puts actual faces to local violent crime statistics.
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Release Date Apr 6, 2012
Duration 1 h 37 m
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