God's Pocket R

The only thing they can't forgive is not being from ... God's Pocket
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Originally Released: 2014
  • Label: IFC Independent Film

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,415
Rating: 4/5 -- Its cast features some of Hollywood's most redoubtable character actors, among them Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final appearances before his untimely death earlier this year. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Aug 8, 2014
Rating: 5/10 -- The tone, writing, and performances in God's Pocket are all incredibly awkward, which is a surprise considering the artists at work. Full Review
Way Too Indie
Mar 28, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- This is sustained and never less than watchable: a suddenly-major film, clinging on doggedly to its minor-ness. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 7, 2014
Rating: 4/5 -- God's Pocket is the best Pete Dexter film, true to his louche, combative vision, tonally surprising, violent and alarming at one moment, then rudely funny and grotesque. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Aug 8, 2014
... something that's trying to be a dark comedy that doesn't know how to handle that "dark" part, so instead it just ends up being sad ... and a little disappointing. Full Review
Three Imaginary Girls
Mar 2, 2019
Rating: 2.5/5 -- God's Pocket is worth a look -- certainly as one of the last performances of the great Hoffman, but also as an ambitious, if ultimately faulty directorial debut from long time actor Slattery. Full Review
IONCINEMA.com
Aug 29, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- John Slattery ... makes his directorial debut with this film and does a good job of it, but there's a problem with the script which is neither here nor there in terms of its commitment to drama or comedy. Full Review
Daily Express (UK)
Aug 18, 2017

Product Description:

John Slattery's feature directorial debut, an adaptation of Pete Dexter's first novel, GOD'S POCKET stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mickey Scarpato, who lives in the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket with his wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks), a lifelong resident of the Pocket, and his stepson Leon (Caleb Landry Jones). Young Leon works at a construction site, and one day his overt racism and all-around unlikability lead to his murder at the hands of a co-worker (the entire crew claim it was a workplace accident).

Mickey, always down on his luck financially, has to scrape together enough money to pay combative funeral-home owner Jack Moran (Eddie Marsan) for the service his grieving wife wants for her boy. He talks his best friend Bird (John Turturro) into betting on a horse he has a tip on, and Bird goes along with the scheme in order to pay off his own debts to a local gangster named Sal Cappi (Domenick Lombardozzi).

Watching over this rough-and-tumble community is newspaper columnist Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins), who writes poetic pieces about the dignity of the locals while remaining continually soused and on the prowl for attractive young women he can sleep with. He visits Jeanie to profile her dead son, and she confesses to him that she doesn't think his co-workers are telling the truth about what happened.

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  • UPC: 030306938592
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