Everyday People (2003)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
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Movie Info
Independent filmmaker Jim McKay (Girls Town) writes and directs the ensemble film Everyday People, produced in part by HBO Films. The story revolves around a neighborhood eatery in Brooklyn called Raskins, a Jewish-owned-and-operated restaurant with an almost exclusively black clientele. After years of faithful service, owner Ira (Jordan Gelber) contemplates selling out to a corporation as part of the city's urban renewal. Everyday People premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part
Jan 18, 2004 Wide
Jan 11, 2005
HBO Video
Cast
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Jordan Gelber
Ira -
Bridget Barkan
Joleen -
Stephen Henderson
Arthur -
Sydnee Stewart
Erin -
Billöah Greene
Samuel -
Reg E. Cathey
Akbar -
Stephen Axelrod
Sol -
Ron Butler
Ron -
Iris Little Thomas
Betty -
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Warner Miller
Beadle
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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
My only complaint is that it feels more like a series pilot than a stand-alone film, but thumbs up.
Top CriticIt has an undeniable authenticity in its characterizations and situations and an empathy that is all too rare even in independent cinema.
The ensemble cast, asked to improvise its roles, interacts with conviction and chemistry.
Jim McKay's ensemble drama, the opening feature in the annual New Directors/New Films series, has a roaming, lived-in quality.
I feel like a real heel for not being able to endorse this film enthusiastically and wholeheartedly, but there we have it.
Although ambitious...Everyday People is a disappointing step backwards for the filmmaker.
Appealing and interesting characters, but [McKay] spreads his film too thinly over too many of them, resulting in sketches, rather than portraits.
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.
Audience Reviews for Everyday People
This movie was recommended to me by a friend. After watching I don't know what he was so excited about. The movie is about a diner that is going to close because the owner was offered a great deal. The people that want to buy it have bought the whole area up. They want to turn the area into high class establishments. Even though the movie takes place in Brooklyn in a shabby area. What the movie shows is how the closing is going to effect the everyday people that work there or go in. The problem is that most of the acting isn't good at all. There are some decent conservartions that seemed very realistic that I really enjoyed, and thats why I gave it a 6 mostly. I don't think if you skip this you are going to miss much.
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It take me a little of work and that someone else explained me about certain facts for understanding the stuff. It is a very original movie with very real characters (At least it seems to me). Performances are good and screenplay it is good too, but the end...the end didnt make me happy, no that situation in which the "mad" of the movie stays thinking if he must change because he realize that he was doing bad...[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]!!! Why????? I mean, that doesnt happend very often!!! And more inside this kind of situations!!!![img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/smilies/frown.gif[/img]
Well...for me its rating is 8.7