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DVD Where the Day Takes You
Homelessness is a serious problem, but this film by Mark Rocco made it look like an alternative lifestyle that, if not for drugs and prostitution, would be kind of cool. Set in Los Angeles, the film centers on a group of homeless teens led by King (Dermot Mulroney), who tries to look out for his younger charges. But he can't keep some of them from getting involved in drug dealing, which leads to violence and melodrama involving evil drug dealer Kyle MacLachlan. Mulroney has a poignant quality, as does Lara Flynn Boyle as a runaway girl he falls for. On the other hand, Sean Astin is stereotypical as a strung-out kid who spoils everything. That's Will "Fresh Prince" Smith as a legless kid in a couple of scenes. --Marshall Fine
Dermot Mulroney scores perfection in Where The Day Takes You
Dermot Mulroney (Wedding Date, Young Guns) plays King, who gets out of lock up and is back on the streets living under bridges and finding out his girlfriend has been playing around. He meets a girl named Heather, played by Lara Flynn Boyle (Happiness, Since You've Been Gone) and he shows her the ropes. He also goes to interview sessions as part of community service and is interviewed throughout the movie by the interviewer, played by Laura San Giacomo (sex, lies and videotape, The Stand). The cast include Sean Astin (Lord of The Rings, Smile) who plays a junkie, Will Smith (Jersey Girl, Men in Black) who is a cripple in a wheelchair, Ricki Lake (Mrs. Winterbourne) as Boyle's friend, Stephen Tobolowsky (Blue Streak, Black Dog), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, One Night Stand), David Arquette (Scream, Riding the Bullet), Alyssa Milano (Buying the Cow, Charmed), Adam Baldwin (Serenity, Gacy), Rachel Ticotin (Con Air), James Le Gros (Near Dark, Ally McBeal), Peter Dobson (The Frighteners) and Balathazar Getty (Tv's Alias, Young Guns 2). Christian Slater (Heathers, Pump Up The Volume) contributes an unbilled cameo. Has some good really extreme things it in, the cast is good but not always there and if you want to see Sean Astin face down in vomit, well this is the movie for ya. Mulroney keeps this at bay giving a perfect performance.
THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE.
This is a great movie that is unfortunately unknown to most people. I guarantee all doubters will be pleasantly surprised, I was. It is such an all around good film that you really need to put it under a microscope to criticize it. But don't take my word for it, watch it yourself and Im sure you will agree with me. There are not many movies that I deem are worth repeated viewings, but this is one of them. BRAVO to all involved!!
Homelessness Hollywood style...
There is a superficiality to this movie that is a bit disconcerting. I suppose it is ironic that big time actors (many not so big then) play no name children of the street. It raises awareness, yes, but it also makes it look kind of cool.
I lived in Seattle for a while and the young people living on the street have a certain belief in the 'coolness' of their lifestyle that actually validates this movie to a degree.
Having worked with the homeless in my hometown, I've learned that it is not monolithic. There are as many 'types' of homeless people as there are homeless people. Does that make me an expert? No.
However, that being said, this is an excellent movie. The cast is phenomenal. With a score by Melissa Etheridge, the movie feels in places like a rock video but it also helps with the flow and mood.
The movie does a good job of exposing, to a greater or lesser degree, the problems that leads to and come with being on the street. It ain't pretty and the movie never really leads you to that conclusion. While it certainly isn't graphic in an extreme sense, it does give you just enough to feel.
For an European it's not always easy to know what the American schoollife is like. This movie shows some important sixties-things. My rate's 3 stars because the real age of the players makes some scenes lesser convincing. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dermot Mulroney - Rick Schroder Director(s): Floyd Mutrux - Stephen Fisher DVD Release Date: Released the 16 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Viewers of this Hollywood-processed movie should prepare to suspend disbelief: the four prostitutes turned outlaws will have flimsy excuses for being adept in gun slinging, stunt riding, and world knowledge. But this Western trips over a poor script of laughable plot points (secret plans are left out for wandering eyes, loot is taken without resistance) and a story that sticks forever in second gear. Never better or worse than Young Guns, with these intelligent actresses only part of the scenery. Drew Barrymore comes off the best, along with James LeGros as a meek rancher. --Doug ThomasMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Madeleine Stowe - Mary Stuart Masterson - Andie MacDowell - Drew Barrymore Director(s): Jonathan Kaplan DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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John Guare's hit Broadway play--about an Upper East Side couple who gets bilked by a young black man claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son--receives a terrific screen translation in this film by Fred Schepisi. Though the play was discursive and episodic, Schepisi, working from Guare's adaptation, makes it all flow like a fascinating evening listening to friends recount something that happened to them. But the story itself is also intriguing for the disparity it reveals between the wealthy, the would-be wealthy, and the have-nots yearning to be rich. Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland are exceptional as the couple who open their home to a young man they believe is a friend of their children (to whom they barely speak); Will Smith is fascinatingly glib as the young man, who claims that... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Stockard Channing - Will Smith - Donald Sutherland Director(s): Fred Schepisi DVD Release Date: Released the 15 August 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leo Fitzpatrick - Justin Pierce - Chloë Sevigny Director(s): Larry Clark DVD Release Date: Released the 07 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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