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The Local (2008)

 -  Action | Drama  -  June 2008 (USA)
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A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.

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The Local follows Noname, an enigmatic man running from a tortured past. He is trapped in a violent Brooklyn underworld as the lowly drug runner for a gang of crazed veterans. There, Noname is approached by a wealthy out-of-towner who offers him a large sum of money to "rescue" the man's heroin-addicted daughter from his employer's drug lair. Noname soon realizes that saving the girl is more than a payday. It will grant him a way out of his purgatory after a lifetime of wrongdoing, and open a path toward personal redemption. Written by Anonymous

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You can change your lot in life. See more »

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Noname: To be more than the sum of your circumstances. To break free from the past. To change your lot in life.
[violent blow]
Noname: It's a promise.
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After school film for slow adults
26 November 2009 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

The story is overly simplistic and melodramatic, like some slightly better than after-school teen film.

I.e., yet another boring inner city drug drama.

Impressive technically, but little more. The acting is all impressive (excluding Eberle who is also the writer and would have been better off writing himself a cameo role). The score, soundtrack, and filming all help make the film tolerable. Hopefully everyone except Eberle will get better films to be in from now on.

So what do you watch instead? Gamer has some similar sub-story lines and written into a more interesting film overall.


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