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Man Push Cart (2005)

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 6

This compassionate portrait of a New York City street vendor is as beautiful as it is melancholy.

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 1

This compassionate portrait of a New York City street vendor is as beautiful as it is melancholy.

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A former Pakistani rock star attempts to adjust to life in New York City while simultaneously making friends and selling coffee from a push cart on the streets of Manhattan in Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani poignant, character-driven drama. By day Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi) tends to hurried Manhattan-ites by keeping their bellies full and ensuring that they are adequately caffeinated, and by night he supplements his income by selling bootleg porn DVDs. Though Ahmad hopes to one day raise

Unrated, 1 hr. 26 min.

Drama

Directed By: Ramin Bahrani

In Theaters: May 12, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Oct 9, 2007

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Cast

Ahmad Razvi
Ahmad
Leticia Dolera
Noemi
Charles Daniel Sandoval
Mohammad
Ali Reza
Manish
Farooq "Duke" Mohammad
Duke
Upendran Paniker
Noori
Arun Lal
Father-In-Law
Razia Mujahid
Mother-In-Law
Hassan Razvi
Ahmad's Son
Mustafa Razvi
Pakistini Driver
Altaf Houssein
Altaf
Bill Lewis
Final Customer
Abdelrahma Abdelaziz
Friend at Bar
Ronak Ricky Patel
Newsstand Worker
Shaana Diya
Club Worker
Bhavana Toor
Ahmad's Wife
Adrian Quezada
Ahmad's Baby
Atif Muhammad Mirza
Atif the Stab Victim
Hui Rao
Verterinarian
Issam Abdelkader
Push Cart Garage Owner
Qamar Bukhari
Guys In Karaoke
Asim Mujahid
Guys In Karaoke
Mousa Kraish
Guys In Karaoke
Mariam Sologashvili
Customer
Thomas Russo
Customers
Marcus Bonn�e
Customer
Paul Ross
Customers
Darryl Meadows
Customers
Linda K. Alexis
Customers
Damita Spencer
Customers
Katherine Boyle
Customers
David E. Boyle
Customers
Edward Harper
Customers
Ana Brzova
Girl Outside Club
Katharyn Yew
Karaoke Waitress
Cynthia Martin
Girls In Limo
Sybil Prince
Girls In Limo
Nicholas Elliot
Falafel Customer

Critic Reviews for Man Push Cart

All Critics (50) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (6) | DVD (5)

The makers of Man Push Cart seem so dedicated to making a film that defies Hollywood conventions that the finished product lacks enough entertainment value to justify price of admission.

December 8, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Michael Simmond's cinematography, especially in scenes of Ahmad muscling his way amid evening traffic and early-morning delivery trucks, is wonderfully true to the moods of a city that never sleeps and seldom nods at the hard work going on before it.

December 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Denver Post

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Shot in three weeks, Man Push Cart does a fine job of capturing the bitter flavor of Ahmad's life.

December 1, 2006 Comment

Robert Denerstein

Denver Rocky Mountain News

Top Critic

Free of contrived melodrama and phony suspense, it ennobles the hard work by which its hero earns his daily bread.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Ahmad's concerns -- his sadness and his striving -- become universal. Though his early-morning riser's world is gray and threaded with melancholy, it becomes, in the end, a place we recognize.

October 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

It's by no means an exaggeration to describe this quietly powerful film as Bressonian.

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

A noble attempt to give us a look at one of the regular people who populate our civilization, one of the guys we may see everyday but would be otherwise totally unfamiliar with.

July 1, 2010 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews

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Jeffrey Chen

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Although the acting isn't so hot from the non-professional bit part players, Ahmad Ravzi - also a non-professional actor and former push cart seller himself - puts in a stoic and solid performance.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Delivers the grind without sugar and clich�s.

November 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Fiction, but always with one foot firmly planted in a grim post-9/11 reality, the cast and crew got called terrorists by people passing by the set, and with a visit from the FBI to see if the film set was a coverup to conceal a terrorist plot in progress.

October 30, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

October 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Kid Surfer

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Prairie Miller

Kid Surfer

The darkly realistic cinematography of Michael Simmonds gives the film a near-documentary style in its depiction of the endless, physically draining work.

October 12, 2007 Comment

Bruce Dancis

Sacramento Bee

Recalling Italian neorealist movies such as The Bicycle Thief, Man Push Cart is a slice of a very sad life.

May 3, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

A sad, powerful, austere experience of a movie, this is the story of a man who has known profound, compound loss.

March 12, 2007 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net

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Les Wright

culturevulture.net

A sad, honest movie about the day-to-day courage and stoicism of decent people who cling to the lowest rung of the social ladder.

January 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]

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Philip French

Observer [UK]

Man Push Cart, written and directed by Ramin Bahrani, attempts to put a human face on the men (and it is generally men) who work inside these tin boxes.

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews

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Ted Murphy

Murphy's Movie Reviews

A slow-burn stunner, where nothing much of consequence happens, except life itself.

January 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Man Push Cart is likely too slow to pull in much of an audience, but that's a shame, because it has so much empathy for the plight of the lonely.

December 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times

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Mary F. Pols

Contra Costa Times

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Audience Reviews for Man Push Cart

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In "Man Push Cart," Ahmad(Ahmad Razvi) spends the pre-dawn hours dragging his push cart through the cavernous avenues of Manhattan to his appointed corner where he serves coffee and bagels to commuters. At night, he makes the long trek back to Brooklyn, dragging along a propane tank. While buying cigarettes, he finds

July 22, 2008

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

A micro budget movie about a Pakistani immigrant working at a coffee stand on the streets of New York. Almost the definition of a "sundancy" movie, the film is a neat little slice of life. The film basically just follows this character over the course of a week and see his struggles. Throughout the film there's a real

June 29, 2008

MJS MJS

Super Reviewer

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