Side Streets (1998)
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Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white newsreel focusing on the ethnic diversity of New York City. This multicultural mix is dramatized in five interlinked tales set in each of NYC's five boroughs on a hot summer day: In Manhattan, a Soho fashion designer on the brink of eviction begins a relationship with a Japanese department store buyer. In the Bronx, the daughter of a Puerto Rican baker thinks her lover can provide a portal to a glamorous, successful life. For the Queens segment, Gerber expanded his 1995 short film, A Small Taste of Heaven, about a gambling Romanian butcher's apprentice who dreams of someday purchasing a nice suburban house for his wife. On Staten Island, the wife of an Indian limousine driver is treated like a servant by her husband's visiting brother. In Brooklyn, a West Indian man makes the mistake of pawning his wife's family heirlooms to buy a Cadillac. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 118 mins
Complete Cast:
- Valeria Golino - Sylvie Otti
- Leon - Errol Boyce
- Shabana Azmi - Chandra Raj
- John Ortiz - Ramon Yanes
- Rosario Dawson - Marisol Hidalgo
- Gary Perez - Victor
- Victor Argo - Albani Krug
- Shashi Kapoor - Vikram Raj
- Art Malik - Bipin Raj
- Mirjana Jokovic - Elena Iscovescu
- David Vadim - Josif Iscovescu
- Aunjanue Ellis - Brenda Boyce
- Miho Nikaido - Yuki Shimamura
- Marc Tissot - Manuel
- Director(s):
- Tony Gerber
- Writer(s):
- Lynn Nottage, Tony Gerber
- Producer(s):
- Bruce Weiss
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