Steel City

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  May 20, 2008

  StaisilD

  Steel City is a stirring family drama from the heartland of America about pride, remorse and forgiveness. When Carl Lee (John Heard) is involved in a fatal car accident he finds himself behind bars, cut off from his life and alienated by his family. His youngest son PJ (Thomas Gu...( read more)iry), confused by life without his dad, is the only person to visit him. While PJ's girlfriend (America Ferrera) stays lovingly by his side and his Uncle Vic (Raymond J. Barry) extends a helping hand, a belligerent older brother (Clayne Crawford) and the reality of being on his own force PJ to grow up faster than he'd like. It's not until a devastating secret is revealed that the family reunites and a regretful father learns that you can never take back the past, but you can let go of it. Every one of the performers has created a character that seems real. Tom Guiry handles all this attention well, showing the emotional turmoil that PJ experiences due to the loss of his father and estrangement of his brother. The film tries valiantly to be a slice-of-life drama, focusing on the aftermath of on particular incident (a car crash), and how it highlights all the cracks in an already broken family structure. The problem is that this slice-of-life drama utterly lacks drama. There's no real tension, and certainly no resolution.

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  June 6, 2008

  notofthisworld

  This movie was soo boring. I didn't even finish watching it. I'm glad America went on to bigger and better things.

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  July 23, 2007

  Venieza

  I hope that it is good

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