The Soft Hustle

Name: The Soft Hustle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2003-01-01
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Omar Rojer, Colin Burns, Jimmy Drago

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7.4/10

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The story of a Lower East Side lowlife who makes a bet for $1,000, which he promptly loses. After getting kicked out of the apartment of his girlfriend, he finds himself going home with chea... Read allThe story of a Lower East Side lowlife who makes a bet for $1,000, which he promptly loses. After getting kicked out of the apartment of his girlfriend, he finds himself going home with cheap barflies, robbing East Village stores and pathetically pretending he is gay just to have... Read allThe story of a Lower East Side lowlife who makes a bet for $1,000, which he promptly loses. After getting kicked out of the apartment of his girlfriend, he finds himself going home with cheap barflies, robbing East Village stores and pathetically pretending he is gay just to have a place to sleep.

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The budget for this entire film was $2000. What is commonly unknown is that the money was spent on a hotel room in Atlantic City, $50 on a limousine and the drugs used in one of the scenes. Many laws were broken to make this film including shooting with real firearms in the streets of New York without permits.

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10/10

A captivating depiction of NYC

I watched this after reading Ethan Minsker's book, Barstool Prophets, and I think the two go really well together-- both explore the hustle of living in the LES of New York. It feels very authentic and gritty, and though it's not as aesthetically pleasing as some of Minsker's more recent work, it's remarkably honest and still enthralling to watch. My experience in New York is vastly different from what's depicted here, but the hustle and thirst for something more I think are still present in the city today. As other reviewers have pointed out, hustle can refer to anything that you struggle to get, so the title works on many levels. Definitely worth a watch.