- Network: Sundance , Sundance Channel
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 4, 2006
- Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
City of Men
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Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings
- Summary: This new series utilizes the actors and locale of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God, but is set in the present day and follows new characters, centering on a pair of 13-year-old boys living in the slums of Rio De Janeiro.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Apr 4, 2006
- Episode Length: 30
- Air Time: 12:00 AM
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100"City of Men" pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie.
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91Those unfamiliar with the film may find some scenes--like when the actors break character to tell their real-life stories--a bit jarring. [7 Apr 2006, p.54]
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90It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce.
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80It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points.
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BroderickW.10This is the best show on black drama television.
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[Anonymous]10
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