10,000 Saints
(2015)
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10,000 Saints
(2015)
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Henry Kelemen | ... | ||
Julianne Nicholson | ... |
Harriet
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Ethan Hawke | ... |
Les
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Asa Butterfield | ... | ||
Avan Jogia | ... |
Teddy
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Nadia Alexander | ... |
Prudence
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Hailee Steinfeld | ... |
Eliza
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Emily Mortimer | ... |
Diane
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Austin Ramsey | ... |
Hockey Player
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Jeff O'Donnell | ... |
Tory
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Matthew James Ballinger | ... |
Hippie
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Emile Hirsch | ... |
Johnny
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Tracy Westmoreland | ... |
Photo Booth Bum
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Warren Kelly | ... |
Minister
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Ellie Bensinger | ... |
Female Classmate #1
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Follows three screwed up young people and their equally screwed up parents in the age of CBGB's, yuppies and the tinderbox of gentrification that exploded into the Tompkins Square Park Riots in New York's East Village in the 1980s.
I wound up liking this a lot more than I thought I would. For the first 20 minutes or so I felt it dragged but then picked up. Overall I thought the acting was excellent, especially Ethan Hawke who played his somewhat complex character splendidly. What I really liked was that most of the characters stepped outside of stereotypical bounds. Hawke's character was a stoner, but in some ways level-headed and responsible. Johnny, the punk singer and tattoo artist, was trying to stay straight and walk the spiritual path and succeeded reasonably well. I read other comments which complained that "nothing happened" in the film. This is not an action film; it's a relationship movie, and given that, I believe it worked well. Plus, the characters all showed some degree of evolution. The scenery, with 1980's East Village was done really well too, very realistic, Twin Towers and all.