Everyday People
You can't wash out all the color and keep the flavor.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 2005
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Hbo Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Reg E. Cathey & Iris Little-Thomas | |
Directed by | Jim McKay |
Entertainment Reviews:
I feel like a real heel for not being able to endorse this film enthusiastically and wholeheartedly, but there we have it.
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Flick Filosopher
Rating: 5/10 --
Although ambitious...Everyday People is a disappointing step backwards for the filmmaker.
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All Movie Guide
Rating: 5/5 --
Vividly depicts the changes taking place in the lives of the working poor in Brooklyn now that the traditional safety nets no longer protect them.
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Spirituality and Practice
Appealing and interesting characters, but [McKay] spreads his film too thinly over too many of them, resulting in sketches, rather than portraits.
culturevulture.net
It has an undeniable authenticity in its characterizations and situations and an empathy that is all too rare even in independent cinema.
Hollywood Reporter
It's Spike Lee with no special effects, Blue in the Face without the celebrity cast... There are no epic disasters here, but there is real tragedy.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 4/5 --
Jim McKay's ensemble drama, the opening feature in the annual New Directors/New Films series, has a roaming, lived-in quality.
New York Times
Product Description:
The diverse ethnic population of New York City provides some food for thought in EVERYDAY PEOPLE. A Brooklyn diner called Raskin's forms the hub for much of the film's activity, and with its ability to draw a clientele of varied ethnicity, the popular restaurant creates a unique and vibrant atmosphere that is seldom matched across the United States. But when a neighborhood courts popularity, the double-headed threat of rent hikes and gentrification loom large. As the Jewish owner of Raskin's announces he's selling up to make way for condominiums and other establishments, it still comes as a shock to most of the regulars. Filmed to highlight a day in the life of the diner, director Jim McKay opens up a can of racial worms with this explosive drama, and neatly highlights some pertinent issues of class and ethnicity in contemporary society.
Description by Warner Home Video:
This intimate ensemble drama tells the interconnected stories of a group of racially diverse New Yorkers who rub elbows in Raskin's, a venerable Brooklyn diner and NYC institution whose Jewish owner has just revealed he plans to sell off the place to make way for condominiums and newer, more "gentrified" establishments. Told over the course of a single workday, the film challenges conventional assumptions about class and racial identity. If you think you know everyday people by what they look like ... you better think again.
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- Sales Rank: 34,496
- UPC: 026359114823
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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