Amounts to little more than a downbeat soap opera.
Comment
05/22/07
Downtown: A Street Tale (2007)
30 %
Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 3 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
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 Scorsese, also stars. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Chad Allen, Genevieve Bujold, Burt Young, Joey Dedio, John Savage
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Reviews
1 - 10 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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
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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