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Director:
Jonathan Nossiter
Writers:
James Lasdun (screenplay)
James Lasdun (story)
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Release Date:
22 August 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
A human mystery rooted in gritty New York reality more (15 total)

Cast

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Arnold Barkus ... Andy

Jared Harris ... Ray
Bahman Soltani ... Abram
Willis Burks II ... Selwyn (as Willis Burks)

Joseph Sirola ... Joe Subalowsky (as Joe Sirola)
Henry Hayward ... Sam
Kevin Thigpen ... David
Chen Tsun Kit ... Himself
Lisa Harrow ... Madeleine Vesey
Larry Pine ... Ben Vesey
Yeon Joo Kim ... Suky Vesey

Fran Capo ... Judy, Madeleine's Friend
Spencer Paterson ... Johnny O

Joe Grifasi ... Scottie Elster
Jimmy Broadway ... Himself
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
91 min | Argentina:94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Ultra Stereo
Certification:
Brazil:16 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | USA:Unrated | Argentina:16
Filming Locations:
Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Company:
Goatworks Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Oliver: No work, no hope for work, like every day's Sunday. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D.959 more

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A human mystery rooted in gritty New York reality, 19 February 2001
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Author: bencharif from New York City

The film's gritty outer-borough images of Queens, familiar to any born and bred New Yorker, got my attention instantly. But it was the film's two principal characters--both middle-aged, both survivors of difficult lives--that sustained it. He, an out-of-work middle management type, is a victim of corporate downsizing now living in a homeless shelter among a multiethnic, multiracial horde of down-and-outers, where he struggles to maintain bare-minimum standards of privacy and personal hygiene--and where remnants of his middle-class life set him apart from his surroundings. She, a faded beauty and still-struggling actress, maintains an oddly genteel life in a rundown two-family house nearby, surrounded by weedy lots and shuttered factories. As they meet and proceed to remove their masks, a kind of love story--brief, impossible, and ultimately doomed, is ignited. This is a beautifully shot and acted film, and a deeply affecting one.

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