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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303046952 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6303046959 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 27, 1995 Running Time: 103 minutes Sales Rank: 8522 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 1993
Amazon.com: 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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Rating: - Painful and Excruciating Reality
I won't deny that this is a difficult film to watch especially if, like me, you have lived in New York City for any length of time (I was born here). It's the story of a homeless man named Jerry (Danny Glover) who takes under his wing a schizophrenic but basically kind, gentle and loving young man named Matthew (Matt Dillon). Jerry helps Matthew adjust to homelessness amidst a bureaucratic system that sabotages the success of anyone trying to escape it. It isn't fully clear why Matthew's mother has abandoned him - though with Matthew's history of mental illness, you get a good idea (horribly cruel ... Read More
Rating: - The truth about Fort Washington
This little known gem is a gourgeous film in many ways. First of all it's a rewarding buddy movie: the young schizofrenic Matthew (Matt Dillon) becomes homeless and it's obvious that he doesn't know the streets and their uncanny laws. But then he meets the elderly black Jerry (Danny Glover), a big wounded Vietnam veteran who takes Matthew under his fatherly wings. Together they wander the streets and try to get by by washing car windows at intersections. Being together (or rather: not alone) makes everything look a little brighter for Matthew, and in a way, for both of them.
Rating: - no title
Very heartfelt and basically sad movie about homeless men in New York with Danny Glover and Matt Dillon. I had not seen Dillon in some time and I am once again impressed by his work. He is very, very good here. As several critics have written, and I agree, the movie is best on a straightforward level, without trying to put goodness, or threats, or couples in love, into its plot. The long shots of all the cots in Fort Washington, and the banks of lights going out, were chilling. But Glover's character was too good, even with one bout of perverseness thrown in. I thought more should have been done ... Read More
Rating: - the sants of fort washington
the best movie in 1993, dillon and glover were being their parts in this movie, amazing.
Rating: - "T.S.O.F.W" HOLD MUCH SIGNIFICANCE, EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE HEED 2 IT! ESPECIALLY THESE SO-CALLED gov't !!!!>i love Ron Brice<
......FIRST-OFF "I MUST" GIVE SHOT-OUTS 2 "TIM HUNTER", THE PRODUCERS & MAINLY "THE CAST"... (THEY MADE "T.S.O.F.W" WORTH WATCHING) -EVEN THOUGH AT TIMES IT WAS HARD 2 WATCH!! *THIS STORY TAKES PLACE IN MANHATTAN, N.Y TOUGH-STREETS... IT'S WINTER SEASON, YES ESPECIALLY 4 THE HOMELESS -& IF YOU'RE FROM THE NORTH YOU CAN RELATE 2 HOW COLD IT GETS!!... WITH TEMPERATURES BELOW -ZERO THE HOMELESS IS FORCED 2 FIND THE NEAREST SHELTER (OR FREEZE)!!...
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......*THIS IS WHERE FRIENDSHIP/PARTNERSHIP IS FORMED WHEN Jerry/DANNY GLOVER ... Read More
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