The read
It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Ratings
IMDb5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes25%
Metacritic52/100
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Anna DominoOriginal Music Composer
- Alan TaylorDirector
- Michel DeloryOriginal Music Composer
- Daniel HandlerWriter
Cast
- Clara BellarAnnabelle Peltz
- Heather BurnsScarlet
- Jon BudinoffSegundo Dejesus
- Paul CalderonCarlos DeJesus
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Spike
- Cliff GormanYakov
- David KrumholtzJoe Peltz
- Chuck LowBruno
- Maryfrances CarecciaRose
- Chris HutchisonJoel
- Julianna DeDonnoConstance, Toddler
- Annie CreanConstance, Six Months
Themes
new york cityhusband wife relationshipjunkie