Street Scene (1995)

Synopsis of Street Scene

Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes' Street Scene is a panorama of life in a Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood that's a mixture of many different nationalities and ethnicities, including Italian, Swedish, and Russian. It begins with a number of women complaining about the sweltering heat, but soon move on to gossiping about another of the tenants, Anna Maurrant, an unhappily married woman who is having an affair. Anna's daughter, Rose, is having her own troubles. Her boss, Mr. Easter, is putting a lot of moves on her, but she is more interested in her young neighbor, Sam Kaplan. Deeply affected by her parents' unhappy marriage, Rose is determined to have a different, happier life for herself. The heat wave continues the next day, when Anna's husband, Frank, hears of his wife's affair. Outraged, he finds the lovers together and kills them both. Distressed, Rose confronts her father as he is taken away, and initially seeks comfort from Sam; however, she soon realizes that the only way she can obtain the kind of life she wants is by severing all of her ties with her past life, even if that includes Sam. Street Scene's score includes "Lonely House," "Ain't It Awful the Heat," "Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed," and "Somehow I Never Could Believe." ~ Craig Butler, Rovi

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142 mins

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