Adrift in Manhattan (2007)

The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.

Director:

Alfredo Rodriguez de Villa (as Alfredo De Villa)

Writers:

Nat Moss (screenplay), Alfredo Rodriguez de Villa (based on an original story by) (as Alfredo De Villa)

Stars:

Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, Dominic Chianese

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Heather Graham	...	Rose / optometrist
Victor Rasuk	...	Simon Colon
Dominic Chianese	...	Tomasso / officeman / painter
Marlene Forte	...	Marta / Simon's mother
Richard Petrocelli	...	Mr. Sneider / photographer's shop owner
Elizabeth Peña	...	Isabel / Tomasso's workmate
William Baldwin	...	Mark / Rose's husband
Karen Olivo	...	Ana / Isabel's daughter
Nicolle Rochelle	...	Melanie / Photographer assistant (as Nicole Leach)
Erika Michels	...	Claire / Mark's sister / tarot reader
Liam de Villa	...	Casey
Keren Love Perilman	...	Jen (as Keren Perilman)
Karina Arroyave	...	Christina
Alexis Smith	...	Yvette
Anthony Cirillo	...	Carlitos / Ana's husband

Storyline

A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help--something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence. - Caroline Libresco

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Plot Keywords:

deep cleavage | older woman younger man sex | scarf | sitting on a bed | sex in bed | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content, some nudity and language

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is an image of a hand hanging on a piece of paper in the mail room (about 1/2 through the movie) that matches the configuration of Heather Graham's hand on the window, as she looks out of her apartment (about 1/4 through the movie).

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Quotes

Mr. Sneider: The guy who invented the digital camera: the number-one reason to repeal the assault-weapon ban.

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Connections

Spoofs The French Connection (1971)

User Reviews

Interconnecting lives

**SPOILERS*** Originally called "1/9" or the NYC Seventh Avenue subway line that runs the length of Manhattan Island and ends at the tip of The Battery "Adrift in Manhattan" connects three lonely people who live along its route.

20 year old camera store worker Simon Colon, Victor Rasuk, is obsessed in photographing people on the streets, as well as subways, of New York. One day Simon comes across this lady sitting in the park and becomes infatuated with her multi-colored, or rainbow, scarf.The lady in question Rose Phipps, Heather Graham, becomes very agitated, and even frightened, when Simon mails a number of photos he took of her at her brownstone.

We never quite get what Simon's reasons for mailing his secretly taken photos of Rose were but it almost gets him fired from his job. Instead Rose soon becomes almost as infatuated with Simon as he's with her to the point of inviting him into her home and, to Simon's utter surprise and delight, forces him, a virgin, to make love to her!

Like Simon we soon find out that Rose is not all there, emotionally, in that she's estranged from his husband high school teacher Mark, William Baldwin, and is suffering from a deep depression in the tragic loss of her and Mark's two year-old son Casey, Leim De Villa. Rose's sexual relationship with Simon soon starts to effect her work as an eye doctor in her treating a patient of her's the refined elderly and cultured gentleman Tommaso Pensara, Dominic Chianese.

Tommaso is slowly losing his sight and in him loving to paint that's as well has him receiving a slow and painful death sentence. Tommaso is also in danger of losing his job in the mail room in that he can't see the letters and packages in order to correctly distribute them. It's Tommaso's co-worker Isabel Parades, Elizabeth Pena, who not only takes the time to help him out at his job but cover up all his mistakes. Isabel also falls in love with the some 75 year old bachelor who for the first time in years feel that he's wanted for himself not his talents; in his music and his art.

All three main characters, Rose Simon and Tommaso, in the movie interconnect with each other due to their proximity to the 1/9 subway line. And it's that very reason that makes their lonely and desperate lives, who are aimlessly adrift in Manhattan, that much more worth living!

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

6 June 2008 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

1/9

Filming Locations:

New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,099, 23 September 2007

Gross USA:

$2,099

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$90,272

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cineglobe Productions, Noble Group, Royal McBee

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1