MacArthur Park R
SALE: |
|
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $11 (73% Off) |
Unavailable:
Sold Out
Brand New
|
Related products:
Boo! A Madea Halloween
for $12.40
DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 2, 2005
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Virgil Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lori Petty, Brandon Adams, Thomas Jefferson Byrd & Ellen Cleghorne | |
Performer: | Bad Azz, B-Real, Sticky Fingaz, Tami Anderson, Keno D. Deary, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Carlton Wilborn, Balthazar Getty, Julie Delpy, David Faustino, Rachel Hunter, Alexia Robinson & Glenn Plummer | |
Directed by | Billy Wirth | |
Edited by | Terri Breed | |
Screenwriting by | Tyrone Atkins, Aaron Courseault, Sheri Sussman & Billy Wirth | |
Composition by | Stephen Perkins | |
Produced by | Maricel Pagulayan & Billy Wirth | |
Director of Photography: | Kristian Bernier |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C --
A film looking for its own identity that was made as a labor of love.
Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
MACARTHUR PARK is the powerful directorial debut of actor Billy Wirth (THE LOST BOYS, WAR PARTY). Wirth's film was initially intended as a documentary on the homeless drug addicts living in Los Angeles' once-elegant, but now crime-infested, MacArthur Park. While interviewing park residents for the documentary, Wirth learned of a script written by a former playwright-turned-crack-addict, Tyrone Atkins, who had lived in the park but was now serving time in prison. Atkins' manuscript was eventually found and filmed by Wirth as a loosely-disguised biographical fiction centered around park resident and former trumpet player Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd), who lost both his career and his family to crack cocaine addiction. Byrd leads a large ensemble that cast includes Ellen Cleghorne, Lori Petty, Miguel Nunez, and real-life rappers Bad Azz, B-Real, and Sticky Fingaz as the park's other drug-addled citizens. The vibrant hip-hop soundtrack--composed by Jane's Addiction's Stephen Perkins and featuring an electrifying cover of "MacArthur Park" by Macy Gray--adds a gritty, authentic vibe to the film's portrayal of drug addiction and broken souls.