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- 2010
- Not Rated
- Cinedigm Entertainment Group
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Cinedigm Entertainment Group
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Lucky, a street hustler selling counterfeit goods, has his world turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by a woman who insists the toddler is his. (Elephant Eye Films)
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Darren Dean, Sean Baker
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Cinedigm Entertainment Group
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Cinedigm Entertainment Group
- 1 h 40 m
Prince of Broadway
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6.3
Summary Lucky, a street hustler selling counterfeit goods, has his world turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by a woman who insists the toddler is his. (Elephant Eye Films)
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Darren Dean, Sean Baker
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
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4 Reviews
43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It's an undeniably small yet almost indefinable film, warmhearted and bittersweet, laced with both humor and tough emotions. Plus it has a kind of bicoastal appeal.
The movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.
Streetwise, kinetic and solidly dramatic, Prince of Broadway is a convincingly character-driven tale set in a clandestine universe -- the realm of stolen and/or counterfeit fashions that exists in the no man's land of Manhattan's West 20s.
Admirably resourceful, Prince of Broadway thrives in that increasingly fertile stylistic niche combining documentary and narrative aesthetics.
With his cinema-verité treatment of baby-daddy drama in Prince of Broadway, Baker proves himself a worthy heir to the Italian neorealists of the '40s and '50s-capturing capably the desperation, and potential defeat, inherent in poverty.
There's one crucial lesson that Baker hasn't absorbed, however: Don't get too caught up in plotting, especially when it involves a man warming to an unwanted child.
It's not the freshest scenario, and Baker lets Lucky sputter and moan about his fate for so long that we wonder, as his sensible girlfriend does, why we're bothering with such undiluted dickness.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
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Generally Favorable
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Production Company
Little Creature
Release Date Sep 3, 2010
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline It's A Hard Knock-Off Life
Website
http://www.princeofbroadway.com/
Awards
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Torino Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Entrevues Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
