Explicit Ills R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Peace Arch Trinity
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Naomie Harris, Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano & Lou Taylor Pucci | |
Performer: | Frankie Shaw, Tariq Trotter, Francisco Burgos, Martin Cepeda & Ross K. Kim-McManus | |
Directed by | Mark Webber | |
Screenwriting by | Mark Webber | |
Composition by | Khari Mateen | |
Produced by | Liz Destro, Sol Tryon & Mark Webber | |
Director of Photography: | Patrice Lucien Cochet | |
Executive Production by | Jim Jarmusch |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
There is much to argue with, and much to regret, about a film whose director thinks he needs to drop an anvil on our heads when art would suffice.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
all social smoke and mirrors.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 8.75/10 --
An impressive directorial debut that manages to be a throughly compelling, honest and socially conscious drama
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NYC Movie Guru
Rating: B- --
Two of the cast members shine: Lou Taylor Pucci as a drug dealer who finds a new lover and baptizes himself in substance abuse, and Rosario Dawson as a mother trying to care for her asthmatic son with no health insurance.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: C --
Webber is good with his actors, but he tries to do too much, depict a portrait of the lower-depths in Philadelphia, present a cautionary tale and call to arms, and also suggest a personal memoir or living in this particular city.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 1.5/5 --
suffers from a simultaneous affliction of overwriting and underwriting
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7M Pictures
Rating: 4/6 --
The film's cast and the fluid camerawork are as hip as can be, and in this age of Obama, so is the sentiment -- unflinching but optimistic.
Time Out
Product Description:
Accomplished indie actor Mark Webber (STORYTELLING, THE HOTTEST STATE) makes an ambitious debut behind the camera with EXPLICIT ILLS. Set in the same Philadelphia streets where he himself was raised, Webber’s script introduces a wide range of characters and follows them over the course of one eventful summer: Michelle (Frankie Shaw) and Jacob (Lou Taylor Pucci) are aspiring artists who fall victim to the temptations of drug abuse; Jill (Naomie Harris) and Kaleef (Tariq Trotter) are the spiritually healthy but financially tenuous parents of Heslin (Ross K. Kim-McManus); the asthmatic Babo (Francisco Burgos) lives under the watchful eye of his mother (Rosario Dawson); young teenager Demetri (Martin Cepeda) must tone down his macho act to score the girl of his dreams; and Rocco (Paul Dano) is an aspiring actor who’s struggling to make it through each day.
Webber uses a fresh visual palette for each of his narrative threads: a synthetic, videogame surreality fuels the story of the drug-addled young lovers; a well-tempered precision frames the home life of Jill and Kaleef; and the innocent tale of Babo is photographed with a nostalgic, aged hue. Webber is careful not to force overlaps between his characters, which makes his film’s conclusion all the more powerful. As the characters come together to march in the name of affordable universal health care, EXPLICIT ILLS reveals its ultimate agenda without ever feeling preachy.
Webber uses a fresh visual palette for each of his narrative threads: a synthetic, videogame surreality fuels the story of the drug-addled young lovers; a well-tempered precision frames the home life of Jill and Kaleef; and the innocent tale of Babo is photographed with a nostalgic, aged hue. Webber is careful not to force overlaps between his characters, which makes his film’s conclusion all the more powerful. As the characters come together to march in the name of affordable universal health care, EXPLICIT ILLS reveals its ultimate agenda without ever feeling preachy.
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- UPC: 625828483004
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