Spare and harshly photographed, Rosemary Rodriguez's gritty drama about two young women dealing with drug addiction in Manhattan's East Village showcases a phenomenal performance by lead Ana Reeder. Suburban refugee Alix (Reeder) lives with her musician boyfriend, Mark (Christopher Kadish), until they have a fight about her drug use and he throws her out, breaking her wrist in the process. Alix continues to rattle around the neighborhood, smoking in crack houses, doing heroin with friends and shoplifting items she can sell through the various hustlers she knows. The one thing she won't do is turn tricks, even though strung-out streetwalker Lisa (Susan O'Connor) has a...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins