Sidewalk Stories (1989)
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Cast
as Artist
as Child
as Young Woman
as Father
as Mother
as Doorman / Street Cop
as Street Partner
as Kidnapper
as Portrait Artist
as Librarian
as Park Mother
as Detective Grasso
as Carriage Couple
as Detective Brooks
as Cab Driver
as Nikki
as Penny Pitcher
as Juggler
as Ventriloquist
as Magician
as Park Mother
as Customer No. 1
as Bully's Mother
as Bully
as Carriage Driver
as Kidnapper
as Precinct Cop
as Breakdancer
as Bag Lady
as Fine Woman
as Shelter Director
as Three-Card Monte Man
as Homeless Mother
as Jazz Quartet
as Pregnant Park Mother
as Jazz Quartet
as Homeless Native American
as Homeless Youth
as Homeless Raver
as Homeless Spanish Speaker
as Homeless Spanish Speaker
as Alley Tough
as Park Mother
as Park Mother
as Precinct Cop
as Alley Tough
as Penny Pitcher
as Jazz Quartet
as Alley Tough
as Precinct Cop
as Jazz Quartet
as Penny Pitcher
Critic Reviews for Sidewalk Stories
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
Laughs, romance, and even something of an adventure flower in Lane's New York.
The interplay between Lane and his real-life daughter Nicole Alysia-who plays the foundling-is touchingly tender.
Charles Lane's follies are enmeshed within bigger pictures of reality, reestablishing the film's thesis of comedy as a mode of survival.
This lively forgotten film, which says so much without speaking, is certainly worthy of DVD salvation. Criterion, are you listening?
Audience Reviews for Sidewalk Stories
While there is rioting happening over a taxi on Wall Street, things are much more peaceful a couple miles north as a homeless street artist(Charles Lane, who also wrote and directed) plies his trade while waiting for the IFC Center to open. As he observes the world going by, he also witnesses a brutal murder in an alley. During which, he shields an infant girl(Nicole Alysia) from danger. First off, I applaud Charles Lane trying to do something different by doing something retro where he gives the homeless characters the only spoken words of "Sidewalk Stories." And I am always a sucker for views of a bygone New York City, in this case, from a movie made in 1989. However, there is also the sad irony of a film steeped in realism having a story, especially involving one incident, that does not really ring true at the same time.
Super Reviewer
Sidewalk Stories Quotes
| Homeless Raver: | Anybody got a quarter? A nickel? A dime? You know what it's like to be homeless? |