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- 2004
- R
- Alliance International Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- R
- Alliance International Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A powerful look into the world of homeless heroin addicts that live in Union Square Park in New York City. (Alliance International Pictures)
Directed By: Stephen Szklarski
Written By: Lillian Miranda, Stephen Szklarski
- 2004
- R
- Alliance International Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 2004
- R
- Alliance International Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Union Square
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Summary A powerful look into the world of homeless heroin addicts that live in Union Square Park in New York City. (Alliance International Pictures)
Directed By: Stephen Szklarski
Written By: Lillian Miranda, Stephen Szklarski
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
51
40% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A raw, brutal, hypnotic journey into the world of seven heroin addicts who barely survive on the streets of New York City. It is a film of great sadness and pain.
The material is vivid and harrowing, although the movie provides little analysis or larger-scale context.
The total effect, of course, is abject sadness as we helplessly watch each enact a unique anti-success story in an inverted reality show.
Without a well-delineated political or social framework, Union Square offers little that we didn't already know.
A moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one.
Like its seven subjects, it can't see past the immediate demands of addiction, and the film becomes a seemingly endless string of scenes depicting shooting up, nodding out and waiting around for the next fix.
Far more troubling than the documentary's lack of data and analysis, its refusal to pose even basic questions -- whether, for instance, the so-called war on drugs is a total farce -- is the sense that these seven lost souls are principally on display for our viewing displeasure.
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Production Company
SZK/NYC Productions
Release Date May 28, 2004
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
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Tagline A journey into the world of heroin and the streets of New York City