Veteran filmmaker Robert Downey — the father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — made his reputation as a provocateur with films like PUTNEY SWOPE (1969), POUND (1970) and GREASER'S PALACE (1971), but this rambling, shambling tribute to Rittenhouse Square, a patch of green smack-dab in the middle of Philadelphia since colonial days, couldn't be sweeter or less confrontational. Downey appears frequently, strolling alongside friends and acquaintances as they answer questions about what the park means to them; above all, he seems interested in the personal and the specific. One remembers when the park was a cruising spot for gay men; a woman recalls the dark days when it was o...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
82 mins