Everyday People
You can't wash out all the color and keep the flavor.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 15, 2012
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Iris Little-Thomas & Reg E. Cathey | |
Performer: | Stephen Axelrod, Bridget Barkan, Ron Butler, Jordan Gelber, Billoah Greene, Stephen McKinley Henderson & Sydnee Stewart | |
Directed by | Jim McKay | |
Screenwriting by | Jim McKay | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Lee Fine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Appealing and interesting characters, but [McKay] spreads his film too thinly over too many of them, resulting in sketches, rather than portraits.
culturevulture.net
It's Spike Lee with no special effects, Blue in the Face without the celebrity cast... There are no epic disasters here, but there is real tragedy.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 5/5 --
Vividly depicts the changes taking place in the lives of the working poor in Brooklyn now that the traditional safety nets no longer protect them.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3/4 --
The ensemble cast, asked to improvise its roles, interacts with conviction and chemistry.
Philadelphia Inquirer
I feel like a real heel for not being able to endorse this film enthusiastically and wholeheartedly, but there we have it.
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Flick Filosopher
It has an undeniable authenticity in its characterizations and situations and an empathy that is all too rare even in independent cinema.
Hollywood Reporter
My only complaint is that it feels more like a series pilot than a stand-alone film, but thumbs up.
Ebert & Roeper
Description by OLDIES.com:
This intimate ensemble drama tells the interconnected stories of a group of racially diverse New Yorkers who rub elbows in Raskin's, a venerable Brooklyn diner and NYC institution whose Jewish owner has just revealed he plans to sell off the place to make way for condominiums and newer, more "gentrified" establishments. Told over the course of a single workday, the film challenges conventional assumptions about class and racial identity. If you think you know everyday people by what they look like ... you better think again.
Product Description:
The diverse ethnic population of New York City provides some food for thought in EVERYDAY PEOPLE. A Brooklyn diner called Raskin's forms the hub for much of the film's activity, and with its ability to draw a clientele of varied ethnicity, the popular restaurant creates a unique and vibrant atmosphere that is seldom matched across the United States. But when a neighborhood courts popularity, the double-headed threat of rent hikes and gentrification loom large. As the Jewish owner of Raskin's announces he's selling up to make way for condominiums and other establishments, it still comes as a shock to most of the regulars. Filmed to highlight a day in the life of the diner, director Jim McKay opens up a can of racial worms with this explosive drama, and neatly highlights some pertinent issues of class and ethnicity in contemporary society.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 100,609
- UPC: 883316440964
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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