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Saint of a great movie!
I was lucky to see this movie years ago and whenever someone asks me, what the saddest movie I ever saw was, I say, The St. of Fort Washington.
I can honestly tell you that the ending had me crying like I've NEVER cried in a movie. (And believe me, it's easy to get me to cry in a movie. Heck,...
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A Movie That Wears Its (Commendable) Heart On It's Sleeve.
This is one of those movies that I?d see in the video store every time I went in, look at the cover, deliberate for a few minutes, then decide against. On the cover, it?s not a bad cast ? Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, and Ving Rhames, though each of these has made a questionable movie or two (or... Read full review »
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A refutation of then-President George Bush's notion of 1,000 points of light, this film by director Tim Hunter is about what happened when holes in the social safety net created a homeless population of unprecedented size during the Reagan-Bush years. The film focuses on two of the homeless: a sweet but troubled young man (Matt Dillon) and a more rugged, worldly-wise homeless Vietnam veteran (Danny Glover), who befriends him and tries to teach him how to survive on the streets. Dillon's character is schizophrenic, unable to get the medication or attention he needs to treat his problem. Instead, he winds up in a Manhattan men's shelter, a kind of Darwinian house of horrors haunted by streetwise predators (led by a scary Ving Rhames). Though overly sentimentalized at times, the film also serves as an indictment of a system that lets too many people like Dillon's character slip through the cracks. --Marshall Fine
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| Stars | Danny Glover | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Actors | Ving Rhames | |
| Directors | Tim Hunter | |
| UPC | 085391280538 | |
| Genre | Dramas | |
| Subgenre | Friends • Social Issues | |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 1993 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 43min | |
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| (06/01/1994, p.59, Ben Thompson): "...[Dillon's] best performance since DRUGSTORE COWBOY....He brings a lean and angelic quality of bewilderment to the role of Matthew..." | ||
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| "Maybe you ain't a schizophrenic. Maybe you're just a saint."--Jerry (Danny Glover) to Matthew (Matt Dillon) | ||
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