Barry Alexander Brown, Spike Lee's longtime editor, made his directorial bow with this sunny but slight film about one immigrant's brush with America.
LONELY IN AMERICA's protagonist is Arun (Ranjit Chowdhry), a young man brought to New York City at the behest of his Uncle Max (Tirlok Malik), a newsstand tycoon who imports relatives from India to work for pitiable pay at his city-wide chain of magazine racks. All Max's wage slaves dwell
crammed together in one tiny flat, and Arun is added to the heap as he staffs a kiosk in the atrium of a busy office building.
Arun applies himself enthusiastically to the lowly job, even though his background is in comp...
Released:
1993
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins