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It realistically portrays the life of Indian upper-class youth and shows the urban and very modern India in the most precise way through the story of three close friends and their experiences.
Grad students Helen and Bernie are gathering information for their masters thesis concerning urban legends when Helen runs across the tale of Candyman, a demon who can be conjured by saying his name five times in front of a mirror.
The final scene culminated the film's strong reminder of the almost unpleasant yet intense fascination I often felt in the urban environments of Japan in the late 80's and early 90's.
The movie relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America.
The iniquitous soul stealing substance popular among urban hep cat Negroes and sex crazed Mexicans is making its final push into the white suburban middle class targeting its children.
This film was a failed attempt at recreating an urban version of 'Charlies Angels'.
Set in the post-war economy, desire to leave the old ways to incorporate benefits of modern urban life is seen only briefly as intrusive on the people whose community is intimately tied to the sea.
Slick, flashy film, a semi-remake of Luc Besson's "Taxi" from 1998, here Americanized as an urban action-comedy.
I don't know how, exactly, but I suppose from documentaries and "Odd Man Out," I'd gotten a picture of strife-torn Belfast as a heap of burned out urban wrack.
I especially liked LL Cool J's performance, and Liotta was believable as the White urban politico.
For a MUCH better horror movie that reflects the black urban experience, rent "Tales from the Hood" instead.
Wolfie and his comrades were a magnificent creation depicting urban unrest in the UK with humour, pathos and with a certain amount of sincerity in the beliefs that society should be changed.
But if one thing does make Confessions interesting is that, away from the smut and the crass humour (the likes of which make the Carry Ons look like The Simpsons) Confessions offers a view of 1970s urban England to complete with the angriest Ken Loach movie in terms of its dystopian bleakness.
Among them, the one that he is best remembered for is "Death Wish," an urban drama that has practically defined his career.
This picture is a disturbing but gripping urban thriller that details the lives of four youngsters who drift aimlessly day by day in search of manhood and self-respect.
The movie doesn't dwell on the scourge of drug use and pushers but instead essays the coming of age of black youths in an urban war zone and the many pitfalls they encounter as they approach adulthood.
FLESHPOT ON 42nd STREET is an honest look at characters living in an urban jungle, a place where if you don't take advantage of the next person you meet, that person will take advantage of you.
This movie was just lame on every level.The lead actor was as weak as water.The story was suppose to be disturbing, with urban "street smarts", and it reminded me more of a cross between an "after school special" and a Lifetime movie, but with some horribly delivered and unconvincing mature language.The plot was suppose to be a loosely based "true to life" story about a juvenile sent to an adult facility, and the hardships he endured, with rape scenes that I guess were meant to be disturbing.
I really recommend this movie to anyone interested in topics like the emptiness and disorientation of the X-geneneration (Y-generation and so on), urban love stories, conflict of genders, and, above all, human feelings and reactions.
Seldom are young, urban men portrayed so humanely.
An extremely bad, agonizingly unfunny comedy concerning urban family man Charles Grodin taking the wife and kids on vacation to an island resort, and not getting what he expected.
I didn't really care for them, at all..they are basically designed after modern urban street characters like a scummy pimp and muscle-freak with multiple piercings.
Rowan, proving to her class that some urban legends have no basis in fact, looks in a mirror and says Candyman five times.
This movie is by far one of the best urban crime dramas i've seen.
Director Jim Tushinski obviously saw a chance to put the urban gay-lib era of the seventies under a microscope by focusing on one man's story instead of a general documentary--and the man he focused on just happens to be "the" icon of gay sexual life at a certain crossroads.
Just the counterpiece of the more commonly told (and likewise simplistic) liberal story of the suppressed girl from the province, old fashioned and educated with narrow-minded moralist principles who moves to a urban environment and develops unimagined qualities, gets famous, discovers sex etc.
The movie is about Helen Lyle, a woman who is investigating urban legends and mythology.
An opening title card announces that Powers should not be taken as an individual character, but as a type, a characteristic example of an urban criminal.
Conflict between brothers is a great subject for gritty urban melodramas, from "On the Waterfront" to "Raging Bull," but the character's conflict with Cagney doesn't go much farther than, "No, I won't drink your filthy liquor!" (not an actual line from the movie, but it could be).
Highlights included the fantastic Ninja headbands (all ninjas need a headband that announces their ninja status), the ninja shell suits, the urban cameo ninja and the screamingly funny dialogue - "Bully, what are you going to do about work?
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