Rated R
Mark Webber's first feature has its heart in the right place, but virtually nothing else is. Drawing on his impoverished childhood, which included stretches living on the streets of North Philadelphia, Webber fashions a multistranded story loosely organized around economic issues: Rosario Dawson plays a single mother who can't afford asthma medicine for her young son; Lou Taylor Pucci is an artist who deals drugs to make rent. There's passion and knowledge in the way the movie tells its stories, but not much sense in the way it knits them together; there's a world of difference between a welfare mom and a group of art-school dropouts whose sojourn below the poverty line is voluntary and transitory. Webber, whose mother, Cheri Honkala, founded the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, closes with a call to action that would be more powerful if he'd managed to make his many stories seem like one. Sam Adams
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Ritz at the Bourse | 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 |
Rating: | R |
Director: | Mark Webber |
Cast: | Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, Naomie Harris, Lou Taylor Pucci, Frankie Shaw, Tariq Trotter, Francisco Burgos, Martin Cepeda, Rebecca Comerford, Namaiya Cunningham |
Release Date: | March 6, 2009 (NY), March 13, 2009 (PH), March 20, 2009 (LA) |
Running Time: | 87 |
Distributor: | Peach Arch Entertainment |
Producer: | Sol Tryon, Liz Destro and Mark Webber |
Genre: | Drama |
Advisory: | for language and some drug use |
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