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Ali Shahid Abdul Wahhad, Ann D. Sanders, Barbara Sanon, George T. Odom, Larry Gilliard Jr. ...( see more  see more... ) , Mark Malone , Matty Rich , Reana E. Drummond

A beleaguered family feverishly tries to get out intact from New York's notorious Red Hook projects in this micro-budget debut film from writer-director-star Matty Rich. The director deserves attentio...( read more  read more... )n for simply getting this unrelentingly bleak movie created and then released (as has been well documented, the then-19-year-old Rich had to gather the thinnest of shoestring budgets from friends and various grants); but the genuine passion behind this gangland drama can't disguise the fact that what's being presented here isn't particularly new or innovative. (A much more facile treatment of a similar subject can be found in Boaz Yakin's stunning Fresh.) Despite the impressively gritty locations, honestly pessimistic worldview, and George T. Odom's raw performance as a haplessly abusive patriarch, one can't quite shake the unfortunate feeling that this is a film more notable for its backstory than what actually made it up onto the screen. Rich would later go on to make the considerably more polished, Disney-funded coming-of-age story The Inkwell. --Andrew Wright

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R, 83 min.

Directed by: Matty Rich

Release Date: January 1, 1991

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DVD Release Date: October 7, 2003

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  • dukeakasmudge
    October 16, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    Good flick but couldve been better if it was longer
  • Ghw12158
    August 15, 2008
    Ghw12158
    a great debut film whatever happened to Matty Rich?
  • mentalfig
    August 22, 2007
    mentalfig
    Nice tight little film

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