Gritty, tough and difficult to watch, Dog Run chronicles the divergent fates of two young men who come to New Orleans. Both Eddie (Brian Marc) and Miles (Craig DuPlessis) are in their twenties and anxious to make a fast back,so they take a job running drugs. One day their pusher sends them to New York to act as go-betweens for a deal with an untrustworthy contact. The deal goes awry, and Eddie and Miles end up penniless and stranded in the Big Apple. They find themselves hanging out with a group
of street kids squatting in an abandoned, condemned tenement, and there their paths begin separating. Eddie ends up with a girl friend, Tara (Lisa Ristorucci), who gets him hooked on heroin, while Miles meets Rachel (Elizabeth Horsburgh), a pretty college student who gives him a place to styay and helps him find work at the café where she waits tables. As Eddie's life rapidly rushes towards tragedy, Miles' slowly improves. Dog Run was screened at the 1996 Toronto Film Festival, though it was 2001 before the film received it's first theatrical engagements in New York. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
As much as Dog Run may lament the squatters' lives ... it can't abandon the old dream of dropping out of middle-class life and reinventing oneself as a romantic rebel.
The film is worth watching. But, I have no good reason why. Disturbing. Drug-adled minds at work. There is little to cheer about in the end. Hopelessness is the greater theme, even in light of the false hope of the hero. Washington Square Park in NYC is the setting for much of the outdoor action. A favorite
place for many filmmakers to shoot from.
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