SummaryA compelling coming-of-age story set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ. The film examines the funny and touching relationship between a young Puerto Rican man and an immigrant pawnbroker. (Pawnshop Pictures LLC)
SummaryA compelling coming-of-age story set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ. The film examines the funny and touching relationship between a young Puerto Rican man and an immigrant pawnbroker. (Pawnshop Pictures LLC)
The story wraps a little too neatly and backs away from some of its darker impulses but is finally a sweet-natured tale of male rituals and cultural adaptation in urban America.
Straight off the streets of Jersey City, writer-director Michael Tolajian’s affable debut charms with its scruffy characters and nuanced multiculturalism.
Romantic entanglements are among the more cliched elements of the script, which nicely captures the rhythms of quiet, small-town lives but taxes credibility in several key scenes.