God's Pocket (Blu-ray) R
The only thing they can't forgive is not being from ... God's Pocket
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks & John Turturro | |
Performer: | Eddie Marsan, Peter Gerety, Caleb Landry Jones, Domenick Lombardozzi & Joyce Van Patten | |
Directed by | John Slattery | |
Edited by | Tom McArdle | |
Screenplay by | John Slattery & Alex Metcalf | |
Composition by | Nathan Larson | |
Director of Photography: | Lance Acord |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
God's Pocket feels like three separate movies. And none of them moved me.
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Dear Cast and Crew
... 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.
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Three Imaginary Girls
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.
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Daily Express (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
For all its vim, the film tries to have its steak and eat it by scolding those who patronise the working man - then getting him drunk and watching him fall over.
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Financial Times
So long as Slattery trains his lens on the bars and back rooms of this salty-dog slum, this film is great fun, if an acquired taste.
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Signature
Rating: 4/5 --
It makes a very plausible whole, and Hoffman is great.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/5 --
Like the fortunes of Hoffman's doomed protagonist, goes from bad to worse.
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Little White Lies
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.
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.