Downtown: A Street Tale

Name: Downtown: A Street Tale
Genre: Drama
Released: April 20, 2007
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 44

2007

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Slowhand Cinema Releasing | Release Date: April 20, 2007 | R

Summary: A drama about homeless teenagers who've bonded through their trials on the streets on Manhattan. (Slowhand Cinema Releasing)

Director: Rafal Zielinski

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The younger actors bring varying degrees of experience to bear on their roles, but all capture the desperation beneath their characters' tough fronts, while the NYC locations are suitably depressing. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

As writer as well as star, Dedio expresses passionate concern for the lost young souls of Lower Manhattan but by and large doesn't define his characters strongly enough to involve the viewer in their fates very deeply. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Amounts to little more than a downbeat soap opera as half a dozen squatters -- hustler, junkie, stripper, queer, fallen Madonna and skank, with a mentally challenged roomie thrown in for good measure -- try to hold their lives together in a grungy New York loft just days before Christmas. Think "Rent" without the music. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Rehashing characters and plots from the "Law & Order" playbook, the director, Rafal Zielinski, supplements his material with religious iconography and more gauzy close-ups than a Barbra Streisand marathon. Read full review

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