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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: James Toback
Directed by: James Toback
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 5, 2000
DVD: September 26, 2000
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong sexuality, graphic language, some violence and drug use
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Oli, Jared Leto, Bijou Phillips, Scott Caan, Gaby Hoffman, and Stacey Edwards
A searing, comedic and exhilarating look at race, sex and hip hop in the melting pot that is Manhattan at the turn of the 21st century. (Screen Gems)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is a mess, as usual with Toback's movies, but intricacies of contemporary urban culture are vividly illuminated by his insistence on blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Toback presents specific characters dealing with specific problems and, through their stories, somehow manages to take the temperature of the times.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Immediately disarming for its candor, verve, and sheer nerve.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Gleefully pushes everyone's buttons...and that manages to exploit our own racial discomfort and envy in ways that leave us hungry for more.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This lively mess proves that when Toback loses his head, he does it with style.
Newsweek Jack Kroll
Maverick moviemaker James Toback has latched on to the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of the American moment.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
A sui generis excursion into sex and race that is by turns terrible...and close to divine.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
An audacious but underconceived blend of fiction and documentary that questions the idea of race and identity in America.
New York Post Lou Lumenick
At heart a cliché-strewn melodrama about a bunch of white, upper-class Manhattan kids who aspire to ghetto culture.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There's something deeper at play in the film, something psychologically foul, voyeuristic and personal.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Too often monochromatic, programmatic and just plain lost.
Film.com John Hartl
The movie is such a mess that it seems to have been assembled from pieces randomly picked from the cutting-room floor.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
Toback's method of presenting the evidence without judgment backfires, finally appearing just as shapeless as the movie's structure.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Sometimes laughably incoherent.
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
The voyeuristic indulgences of a middle-aged filmmaker playing out his most deep-seated and unresolved sexual fantasies and anxieties.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
There is really no one to like in this film.
TNT RoughCut Pauline Adamek
When worlds collide - people yawn.
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