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- Summary: After escaping to New York for a few years, Danny Quinn (Wahlberg) returns home to Boston's Southie neighborhood to start over again. He's drawn back to the life of crime when he discovers his family's in debt to the gangs.
- Director: John Shea
- Genre(s): Drama
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63Juicy acting and an intense individual and communal commitment that seems to boil up from the streets carry Southie past its structural and technical limitations. [28 May 1999]
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60The acting is admirable and the film's hip, on-the-street feel is enticing, it's just too bad that this Irish "Goodfellas" hangs itself with a plot that's contrived and one dimensional.
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58Directed with a Scorsese-ish flair by actor John Shea (who also plays a small part), the film is loaded with gritty atmosphere and touches of authenticity. [12 Jun 1998]
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20Bottom-drawer plot of a South Boston bad boy returning to tie up loose ends reads like every other "Mean Streets" knockoff in the past decade, with no scene, development or performance standing out from undifferentiated din.
