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Somewhere In The City

1998, Movie, NR, 93 mins

Somewhere In The City: Review

Having fled his native Iran and landed in NYC's East Village, director Ramin Niami wanted to make a film about his new hometown and figured "The Lower Depths" -- Maxim Gorky's play about gutter-life in turn-of-the-century Russia -- would be a good place to start. The result has little to do with Gorky, and the story is riddled with holes. But it's still an oddly endearing comedy. In a Lower East side apartment building, a group of marginalized New Yorkers lead lives of not s... read more leave a comment