Sebastian Keneas
Nineteen unsavory characters find their lives briefly intertwined one Friday afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood in this sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic offering from Cinque Lee (brother of distinguished director Spike Lee). None of the characters are actors and all of them use their actual names. Even Lee appears as an escapee from a mental hospital who is trying to rebuild a relationship with his troubled estranged son Ari. Lee must also find the medication he needs to function. Meanwhile Ari's mother looks for him while her husband is accidentally nabbed by a car jacker. In other vignettes, a rookie magician messes up her very first gig, a lesbian pimp attempts to woo back her old girl friend and a drug dealer frantically searches for a missing stash. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Darnell Martin, Addison Cook, (more)
- 1985
- PG
Based on an autobiographical novel by Jack Eisner, this wartime drama of survival covers almost too much territory within its short telling, often giving the impression that something has been left out. Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. Director Moshe Mizrahi brings forward the reality of the Warsaw ghetto, the deportation of Jews to death camps, and the terror that reigned for the war years in Poland by placing Jacek at crucial points in the narration as the observer of key historical events. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling (Kyra Sedgwick) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sebastian Keneas, Kyra Sedgwick, (more)
