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Manufacturer: Legaci / ThinkFilms
Starring: John Patrick Amedori, Erica Leerhsen, Shawn Hatosy, Michelle Horn, Tory Kittles
Directed By: Tom Zuber
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575548953
Format: AC-3
Label: Legaci / ThinkFilms
Manufacturer: Legaci / ThinkFilms
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Legaci / ThinkFilms
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-11-21
Running Time: 105
Studio: Legaci / ThinkFilms
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Jimmy has stolen his dead drug dealers cash & now must unload it without getting caught by his associates. Now at a massive house party in the heart of little athens everyone is about to face the consequences of their reckless pursuit of sex money & acceptance. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: John Patrick Amedori Shawn Hatosy Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R
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Summary: A fascinating portrait
Comment: "Little Athens" is a terrific slice-of-life film; beautifully rendered and acted. Life can be unforgiving and desperate, and this movie offers a portrait of several people in the throes of hopelessness, and how their actions and misdeeds color their future. Subtle, but affecting, "Little Athens" is lovely, and its cast is outstanding.
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Summary: Seen it before, yet still find it compelling
Comment: I won't reiterate the other reviews, they are pretty much on target. We have seen a lot of the style of this film, which take several seemingly at first disparate storylines and manage to tie them together as the story continues to its conclusion. Most effectively done in Quentin Tarantino's films as well as Greg Marcks' "11:14". As far as teen/young adult boredom and angst comes into play the film "Over The Edge" also comes to mind. While many of the characters are unsympathetic and make bad choices, I still find the overall trials and tribulations of the characters somewhat compelling. A good film, not great, but worth viewing.
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Summary: star review
Comment: This movie was not to bad , but lacked a meaningful plot .was ok for a rental.
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Summary: For a low budget film with such a big cast, Little Athens pays off
Comment: Little Athens is a circuitous look at post-high school life in the small town of Athens, Arizona (although, as the opening scene states: "it could have taken place anywhere"), using a series of loosely interwoven characters to develop more of an apathetic tone rather than a typical plotline. It succeeds in communicating this sense of boredom with its audience, although it does so at the risk of actually being a bit boring at times. But, the characters and their stories are very believable and realistically portrayed, even if they go over the top a few times.
The entire film eventually centers around a party that all the characters happen to attend, in which we see how their various lives are intertwined, and ultimately see how the lifestyles of the bored and lost can result in irreversible damage to multiple lives.
The cinematography is often stunning, although occasionally the low budget filmmaking stands out when the digital camera can't keep up with the action, and this does detract from the film, but only enough to remind you that this movie was made on an extremely low budget, which is more reason to be impressed by the rich colors and scene arrangements.
There is a behind the scens featurette on the DVD, but it's only about five minutes long and doesn't offer much insight you can't gather from watching the film itself.
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Summary: The Dynamics of Small Town Boredom: A Metaphor?
Comment: Tom Zuber has great credentials in Law but seems to prefer to dabble in the territory of cinema. Having not seen his debut film LANSDOWN (2001) it is difficult to judge from LITTLE ATHENS (2005) if he is improving with age, but looking at LITTLE ATHENS on its own merits it seems a bit sparse in idea and in production.
Athens, Arizona is the bleak setting of this day in the lives of some fairly bored (and boring) youngsters, ne're-do-wells attempting to infuse sparkle into an otherwise glitterless place. Zuber creates four story lines, spottily interweaves them, and finally connects the dots in the last reel. The main problem is that comedy is funny because we care about the facilitators and here there really aren't any folks in which to invest. The cast tries hard and succeeds in giving us a taste of life in the flatlands of nothingville. D.J. Qualls (a character type who is very good, as in 'Hustle and Flow'), Michael Pena, John Patrick Amedori, Shawn Hatosi, Tory Kittles, Eric Szmanda, Jorge Garcia, Erica Leerhsen, and Michelle Horn are particularly fine and do their best with the material they are given.
Tom Zuber has a style, a sense of non-scripted spontaneity incorporating the gross with the sadsack, and given time he may make a fine little film. This one just misses. Grady Harp, January 07
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