MacArthur Park (2001)
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Amazon.com
Despite its grim milieu–a Los Angeles park that is home to cocaine addicts, gangsters, and hustlers–MacArthur Park explodes with energy and humanity. The ensemble drama’s compressed setting is like a small sea in which one denizen’s misdeed or scam-gone-wrong creates currents of violence swallowing everyone else. In the 48 hours or so of the story’s action, one low-level coke dealer rips off a fading television star, whose revenge involves a would-be rapper, who in turn (more…)
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