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- Summary: An aspiring comic book artist (Perez) of Dominican heritage is forced to take over his family's bodega in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan when his father is crippled by a gunshot from a robber.
- Director: Alfredo De Villa
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 8 out of 14
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Mixed: 6 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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90Washington Heights, under De Villa's guidance, bubbles. Once more, as in comparable films, it creates a foreign nexus in a domestic setting -- a group of people who live in two cultures.
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88Made in a forthright, unfancy style and utilizing a cast of born naturals, Washington Heights deftly draws parallels between father and son's complicated relationship and the tensions that pulse through this predominantly Dominican American community.
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60Not surprisingly, the film is strongest when its characters are simply hanging out, shooting the breeze and venting their feelings, while moments of high drama occasionally fall flat.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
