Eva Kaminsky Movies
- 2007
Joy Dietrich's drama Tie a Yellow Ribbon relates the friendships between three young Asian-American woman. Jenny was adopted from her Korean home by a white family, and she carries around great anger for the way she was treated by her adopted family. She moves in with Bea, an innocent who is easily taken advantage of by a number of different men. Their apartment is across the street hall from Sandy, a wallflower who has difficulty expressing herself in any way at all. The film points out how each of them are acting out in self-defeating ways in response to their upbringings, and shows why the suicide rate among young Asian-American women is higher than it is for other groups. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 2006
A petty criminal's attempt to turn his life around takes both him and a young boy on an unexpected journey in this independent drama. Twentysomething Daniel Carter (Mark Webber) has been in trouble with the law ever since he was a kid, and his latest misadventure has led him to performing community service at a grade school in the East Village. Daniel strikes up a close friendship with one of the students he's working with, Boone (Antonio Ortiz), an eight-year-old who has shown surprising resilience despite a blighted home environment. When Boone doesn't show up for school one day, Daniel asks some questions and learns his mother has become seriously ill and a foster family has taken him in. Boone is eventually put up for adoption, and Daniel hopes to gain custody of the boy, convinced helping the boy will give him a chance to turn his life around. However, his age and criminal record make Daniel an unfit father in the eyes of the court, and when Daniel's father refuses to help, he has a brainstorm -- Boone has mentioned that he has an older sister in Dallas, so Daniel snatches the boy from his foster parents and hits the road for Texas, planning to reunite Boone with his family. Just Like the Son received its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark Webber, Antonio Ortiz, (more)
