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Edge City

2003, Movie, NR, 107 mins

Edge City: Review

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Using ragged production values to enhance his film's air of authenticity, filmmaker Eugene Martin delivers a grueling inner-city drama about teens trapped by their limited perspective. Philadelphia high-schoolers James (Charlie Hofheimer) and his brother, Bobby (Ryan Patrick Carmody), hold after-school jobs, watch over their alcoholic father and look forward to the annual dance at St. Mark's Academy that celebrates the start of summer. Some of the upscale, suburban students regard kids like James and Bobby, who were born on the wrong side of the tracks, as one step above trailer trash. The inner circle of these snooty teens consists of spoiled bulimic Cherie (Heather Gottleib), her confidante, Suzie (Michelle Seabreeze) and hot-headed Robert (Todd Berry), who steals from his mother to keep up with his classmates. While Robert hangs out with his gangsta-wannabe pals, Cherie and Suzie drop by a fast food hangout where two inner-city teens douse them with soda and cop a feel. The angry girls relate this incident to Tammy (Isidra Vega), who blows the prank out of proportion and spreads the gossip that Cherie and Suzie were raped by townies. Before long, Cherie and Suzie's defenders are out for blood. At the St. Mark’s dance, Bobby dances with an African-American girl and unwittingly incites Robert’s group. Bobby and James unfairly become the focus of the in-crowd’s enmity, and Tammy offers to throw a keg party if Robert’s gang starts a rumble with the poor kids. Robert enlists the aid of an older thug who's done time, and the gang fight erupts into mob fury, catching innocent bystanders in the crossfire. Though writer/director Martin doesn't make all the elements of his episodically structured class-struggle story work together smoothly, he deepens handles this fact-based tragedy deftly, making its escalation of hopelessness ring chillingly true. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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