Downtown: A Street Tale
Release Date: April 20th, 2007
R|1 hr. 43 min.
Plot Summary
A young man (Joey Dedio) clashes with a woman (Geneviève Bujold) who runs a shelter, as he tries to care for his makeshift family of homeless youths.
Cast: Geneviève Bujold, Joey Dedio, John Savage, Burt Young, Chad Allen, Jeremy Alan-Richards, Lillo Brancato, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Genres: Drama
Distributor: Slowhand Cinema Releasing
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. show more
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. show more
Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love. show more
