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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and his brother's well to-do fiancée and is reluctant to be the best man at their wedding.A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and his brother's well to-do fiancée and is reluctant to be the best man at their wedding.A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and his brother's well to-do fiancée and is reluctant to be the best man at their wedding.
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Everett Silas
- Pierce Mundy
- (as Everette Silas)
Ronnie Bell
- Soldier Richards
- (as Ronald E. Bell)
Frances E. Nealy
- Mrs. Dubois
- (as Frances Nealy)
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- QuizA restoration of the film was conducted in 2007 by the University of California Pacific Film Archive.
- ConnessioniReferences Puppet Playhouse (1947)
- Colonne sonoreOld Rugged Cross
Written by George Bennard
Recensione in evidenza
A film of moments in the life of a family in a black neighborhood in LA; mundane waiting behind the counter in the dry cleaning family business, goofy wrestling with the father in the backroom, helping the aging 'aunt' take her pills and reading to her from the bible, the old friend who comes out of prison, walking, standing around in front porches, teasing, eating grub in the small kitchen.
Yes the acting is mostly stodgy, the plot, whatever plot there is, very threadbare; a disillusioned son has to come to terms with his svelte brother's upcoming marriage to an upper class lawyer, his own life going nowhere and loss of more innocent times.
Yet I'll have this over a dozen Spike Lee films.
There is some reactionary sentiment but it is not bolstered by cutesy cinematic tricks, it does not yank us from 'real' presence in the film to Brechtian distance. The film does not emphasize the moral or political dimension, but simply the bedrock of frustrated life. It is enjoyable not because of quirks, but truthful ordinariness. It is atmospheric, but only because our gaze is transparent and the world seems vibrant, immediate in the way of Cassavetes. What truth is here is not so much for me in the squabbling and grievance, but in the fact that I can almost reach out to touch the cheap formica counter. Here's where the nonacting pays off; having Samuel Jackson in there would ruin the thing.
Normally, I'm not a fan of neorealism which this film owes to, until it was transmuted by Rossellini/Antonioni onwards to be simultaneously about the reality and landscape of mind, but I'm also a sucker for places and atmospheres I can visit. I saw this for my cinematic Los Angeles project, and already know I will return to it in the future; in its permeating sense of place, it joins The Exiles, Killer of Sheep, The Long Goodbye, Angel City, Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
Yes the acting is mostly stodgy, the plot, whatever plot there is, very threadbare; a disillusioned son has to come to terms with his svelte brother's upcoming marriage to an upper class lawyer, his own life going nowhere and loss of more innocent times.
Yet I'll have this over a dozen Spike Lee films.
There is some reactionary sentiment but it is not bolstered by cutesy cinematic tricks, it does not yank us from 'real' presence in the film to Brechtian distance. The film does not emphasize the moral or political dimension, but simply the bedrock of frustrated life. It is enjoyable not because of quirks, but truthful ordinariness. It is atmospheric, but only because our gaze is transparent and the world seems vibrant, immediate in the way of Cassavetes. What truth is here is not so much for me in the squabbling and grievance, but in the fact that I can almost reach out to touch the cheap formica counter. Here's where the nonacting pays off; having Samuel Jackson in there would ruin the thing.
Normally, I'm not a fan of neorealism which this film owes to, until it was transmuted by Rossellini/Antonioni onwards to be simultaneously about the reality and landscape of mind, but I'm also a sucker for places and atmospheres I can visit. I saw this for my cinematic Los Angeles project, and already know I will return to it in the future; in its permeating sense of place, it joins The Exiles, Killer of Sheep, The Long Goodbye, Angel City, Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingue
- Celebre anche come
- Свадьба моего брата
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Chico Street, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(scene with Pierce and Soldier wrestling, confronted by man with gun)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 50.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 8.217 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 4.294 USD
- 16 set 2007
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 26.177 USD
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