God's Pocket (2014) (original) (raw)
When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction 'accident', nobody in the working class neighborhood of God's Pocket is sorry he's gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle with a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay.
When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction 'accident', nobody in the working class neighborhood of God's Pocket is sorry he's gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle with a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay. (less)
Director: John Slattery
Writer: Peter Dexter
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, Caleb Landry Jones
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Review by Brian Orndorf, May 15, 2014
6 / 10
Acting veteran John Slattery makes his feature-length directorial debut with �God�s Pocket,� and while the performer has spent a lifetime around numerous filmmakers, absorbing the finer points of tonal balance, his own foray into storytelling often finds its shoelaces tied together. Death is played for laughs, life is miserable, and there�s not a problem that can�t be solved with alcohol in �God�s Pocket,� and while select scenes brim with a deliciously uncomfortable tension, the overall picture feels incomplete, lost in an effort to summon a sense of neighborhood decay instead of following th ...read more...
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