Why do fledgling filmmakers try to beef up straightforward coming-of-age sagas with criminal behavior? College-aged Shane (Daniel Wheir) yearns for excitement, but he’s stuck on Long Island trying to sell his family home and reduced to working a minimum-wage job at a Fotomat. Shane pines for his apartment in New York and lives vicariously by stealing photos of his more interesting customers. One such regular, Tara Rosenthal (Gaby Hoffmann), takes bizarre snapshots of animals injured on the highway. Her thieving boyfriend, Billy Nemo (Johnny Zander), works as a busboy in Manhattan and rips off customers; his biggest haul yet was the cash-filled valise he stole from a...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
83 mins