Amounts to little more than a downbeat soap opera.
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05/22/07
Downtown: A Street Tale (2007)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:3
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.3/10
Synopsis: Chad Allen and Genevieve Bujold star in this drama about homeless teenagers who've bonded together through their trials on the streets. Domenica Cameron Scorsese, daughter of director Martin... [More]
Starring: Chad Allen, Genevieve Bujold, Burt Young, Joey Dedio
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Reviews for Downtown: A Street Tale
1 - 10 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
As maudlin and overly familiar as it is earnest.
05/11/07
Top Critic[Director] Zielinski's attempts at serving up grunge and grittiness largely fall flat. Scenes of sex and drug use are typically accompanied by a swooning and intrusive soundtrack.
05/11/07
Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love.
05/10/07
We’re asked to invest in too many characters; on the other hand, aside from Bujold, there’s no one you want or need to know more about.
04/27/07
Many actors have written far worse debut scripts, and except for one shot...it all comes off grungy and sad and cold-as-concrete unromanticized.
04/23/07
As Downtown plods toward its Christmas Eve–set climax, the film’s tendency to OD on melodrama detracts from its grittier moments.
04/21/07
Veteran actress Bujold's powerful, unaffected performance is the anchor that keeps the film's episodic subplots from spinning off into chaos.
04/20/07
Earnest intentions can't begin to save this clumsy cautionary tale about teens and twentysomethings trying to survive on the mean streets of Manhattan.
04/20/07
A hackneyed melodrama partly redeemed by a cast convinced that it’s performing Tennessee Williams.
04/20/07
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