Explicit Ills

Explicit Ills

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Explicit Ills

Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano, Naomie Harris, Lou Taylor Pucci, Frankie Shaw

A drama of four interconnecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.

Id: 11000198

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  • July 17, 2009
    Congratulations to Mark Webber for a decent directing debut. And he also deserves to be congratulated on his development of a fascinating movie character, that of Babo. However, the movie gets a bit lost. Some of the characters don't really add up to anything and at the end you'r...( read more)e wondering what were they trying to say throughout the movie and why they chose to offer it like that. The lives of everyone just seem to intersect to an ending that had nothing to do with the rest of the movie. A better deliverance would suffice. As to the rest of the movie elements, the performances were great, the chemistry between the characters splendid, and it had the right amount of tragedy poured into it.

    But it gets you lost quickly and it's tiring at points. It could have been greater but it wasn't.
  • August 6, 2008
    Ensemble drama clumsily works its way to a Big Message.
  • November 19, 2009
    This is an intriguing story of different people with different connections to the movie's theme. With great cinematography.

    Personally, I think there are too many stories being told at the same time, with too little in common. I was having problem seeing how they connected until...( read more) the last minute, and that punchline wasn't powerful enough for me.
  • September 9, 2009
    This film proved better than I expected. It could stand to be about 20 minutes longer and would greatly benefit from giving Paul Dano more screen time.
  • August 18, 2009
    the ending has a good message, but 80% of the movie is just random, meaningless scenes.
  • July 21, 2009
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  • July 17, 2009
    very poignant tale on everyday people's every day struggles. touching without being preachy,
  • July 17, 2009
    oh my gosh i can't believe it
  • July 16, 2009
    Interesting maybe?...Too much of this type of thing is around today in my personal veiw from cop shows 'n drugs and poverty...There are many forms of poverty...the truth is I like to leave a movie feeling elated and inspired...I'd have to see it to totally decide...MichaelMichael
  • July 16, 2009
    Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano, Naomie Harris

    A drama of four interconnecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.

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