If you are from or visited the tri-state area in the late 80's - early 90's when the Eagles football team was exciting and before most people were on hard drugs , your local watering hole and barber shop were just as sacred as church. This was a good time capsule movie.
Plot summary
A local success story and real estate developer, Mick (Jeremy Piven),returns home to his offbeat blue collar Irish neighborhood in the shadows of Philadelphia for a funeral and is obligated to stay to ensure his parents' ailing family business gets back on course. Amidst all of this, he grows closer to his childhood crush (Taryn Manning) who is also back in town, while enduring the constant ridicule from his old hometown crew. As Mick begins to reconnect with the neighborhood he grew up in, he finds himself at a crossroads when forced to either raze or resurrect the family bar.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Top cast
Cheri Oteri as Dr. Baba Brown
Taryn Manning as Ali
Zach McGowan as Dougal
Cathy Moriarty as Mrs. C
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720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 2160p.WEB 930.88 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
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Stereotypes are true but to be avoided because they do not offer fresh perspectives, rather they present fixed views that coddle our expectations. Using the familiar return story, this movie exploits every stereotype it in almost every degree.
We have the cranky father, the old band of friends, the various women (this is mostly a male tale told from the male angle); economic hardship, career and ambition disappointments and many passing shots of houses and streets that would not grace a glossy lifestyle magazine.
Along with those tired contextual clichés we have the representation of working class men as horny, hard-drinking and unlikely to reach any form of maturity. They have scant lives besides benders and laughing drunkenly in their endless pursuit of male bonding. Such fixed and narrow representations of other social groups usually cause anger but perhaps this cohort are phlegmatic about such things.
To use a phrase, It is what it is, and if this story with its good intentions and able cast of actors seems worth the time, then so be it. Don't look for much above the prosaic.
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This was made why?
What is that thing on Jeremy Piven's head? He was going bald in the '90s yet with each TV and movie appearance he's got more and more "hair" but I'm not sure what that is on there now. Weave or wig?
Either way, Piven is a good actor but seems to play basically the same character in everything. This is no different. In fact everyone in this is a good actor. There is no real script to speak of. It's boring as hell. Clearly lots of improv and not the good kind.
Hard to get through this. Not sure why it was made. And you just can't watch Piven, again, a good actor, without staring at whatever that is on his head. There is nothing wrong with going bald, not sure why guys like Piven and Billy Bob try to hide it.