A well-crafted, slice-of-life saga which amply illustrates how easily matters might go from bad to worse in the already-overburdened inner-city when disaster strikes in the 'hood.
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04/14/08
Blackout (2008)
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Reviews Counted:3
Fresh:1
Rotten:2
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Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 2003's historic New York City blackout forms the premise for this drama set in Brooklyn's East Flatbush, where looters and violence emerged as soon as the lights went out.
Reviews for Blackout
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there are some terribly cliched threads, including C.J.'s as the doomed upwardly mobile kid from the block, and James as the tormented witness of 9/11
12/18/07
Hopes to attach some larger social significance to the event, but that unfortunately falls largely flat and suffers from a derivative and sometimes vapid script.
06/22/07
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