Gina Gershon - City of Hope (Trailer)
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- Release Date: 1991
- Runtime: 129 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Vincent Spano, Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Tony Lo Bianco ... see all
- Director: John Sayles
- Plot: City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the... Read more
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Mar 31, 2006
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i can't belive angela she and that man wwas really getting it on and she was ridding him and having an oregasim wit him i can't belive it... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Oct 21, 1991Newsweek
But what's remarkable is how much of "City of Hope's" epic ambition pays off, with a power that never becomes grandiloquent.
John Sayles 's subject in City of Hope is the political, social and moral rotting of urban America.
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Chicago Sun-Times
City of Hope " is a powerful film, and an angry one.
Sayles' method of telling the story of this city, and the people trapped there, is audacious.
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Rolling Stone
Nick, a hot-tempered cokehead vividly played by Vincent Spano, kicks things off by quitting a union construction job procured by his fatcat contractor father, Joe (Tony Lo Bianco), who has ties with crooked politicos.
But Sayles brings something rare to American movies: a keen sense of purpose.
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MTV.com
A city pulses with racial problems, political corruption, and small-time crime in this ambitious microcosm of urban life, written and directed by John Sayles.
Many of Sayles' regular players are on-screen (the movie features 52 roles), including Joe Morton as a frustrated councilman and David Strathairn as a disturbed street person.
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