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Charlie searches new york city for a mysterious stranger who he believes holds the key to his very existence. He stumbles from one eerie encounter to another in his seemingly endless pursuit. Is this all part of charlies delusion or an elaborate urban legend which has taken over his life? Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Dan Futterman Matt Keeslar Run time: 104 minutes Rating: R
Jon Shear's film, one of the overlooked gems of 2000, simmers under a tense, disturbing air of inevitability. Charlie (Dan Futterman) wanders the nighttime streets of the city, a mournful lost soul determinedly pursu
Charlie searches new york city for a mysterious stranger who he believes holds the key to his very existence. He stumbles from one eerie encounter to another in his seemingly endless pursuit. Is this all part of charlies delusion or an elaborate urban legend which has taken over his life? Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Dan Futterman Matt Keeslar Run time: 104 minutes Rating: R
Jon Shear's film, one of the overlooked gems of 2000, simmers under a tense, disturbing air of inevitability. Charlie (Dan Futterman) wanders the nighttime streets of the city, a mournful lost soul determinedly pursuing a mysterious stranger whom he is convinced holds the key to his redemption. He encounters chatty bartenders, pompous pickups, and dying friends (including a biting Alan Cumming), and before long you are treated to that rare, great surprise of realizing that you have no idea where any of it is headed. Some of Shear and Daniel Reitz's play-based dialogue is stagy, but the mercurial Futterman, both subtly sympathetic and unstable, is superlative. The film surrounds him with loopy urban legends (the poodle in the microwave, the AIDS-infected one-night-stand, etc.), then cunningly lifts the veil on such stories to reveal the fear motivating them. Uncertainty and isolation create the need for fantastic terrors. Shear hauntingly suggests here how much more horrifying and heartbreaking real life can be. --Steve Wiecking
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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Release date: 13 March 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9781588171344 UPC: 003139876102
Tags: Drama (1), Thriller (1), Bar (1), Violence (1), Murder (1), Dating (1), Peter (1), Hate Crime (1), Dog (1), Lgbtq (1), City Life (1)
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