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- 2007
- R
- Slowhand Cinema Releasing
- 1 h 43 m
- 2007
- R
- Slowhand Cinema Releasing
- 1 h 43 m
Summary A drama about homeless teenagers who've bonded through their trials on the streets on Manhattan. (Slowhand Cinema Releasing)
Directed By: Rafal Zielinski
Written By: Joey Dedio
- 2007
- R
- Slowhand Cinema Releasing
- 1 h 43 m
- 2007
- R
- Slowhand Cinema Releasing
- 1 h 43 m
Downtown: A Street Tale
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Summary A drama about homeless teenagers who've bonded through their trials on the streets on Manhattan. (Slowhand Cinema Releasing)
Directed By: Rafal Zielinski
Written By: Joey Dedio
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
44
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
40% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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.
Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love.
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.
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.
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.
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Production Company
Aloe Entertainment,
Proud Mary Entertainment,
Downtown LLC,
Insight Film Studios,
Silvio Sardi Communications
Release Date Apr 20, 2007
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline In a world of darkness and pain, hope and courage are the only way out.
