Sidewalks of New York (2001)
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.
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Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
Disturbing yet enthralling
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
With a brother who lives in Manhattan, there was a resonance to this story. All these people seem very real and their stories seem very possible. What more can you ask from a film? It all seemed to flow even tho man on the street interview should bring in a certain break from reality. For me, it did not.This is a 14 year old film and few will be seeing it in the years ahead. They should as the stories are forever as long as our culture lasts. Sure there are a couple of story points that time has passed by but it did not have you sense it was out of touch with today's world.Enjoy it.
Being a Rosario Dawson fan it was only a matter of time before I would get around to seeing this film. After being disappointed with "Down With Love," more so with the script than with her character development I was not expecting much from this movie. I got a lot more than I bargined for. This is an excellet film with and excellent cast that really is a joy to watch.Although this is a great movie, there were a couple of things that I would have changed. The subject matter can get a bit redundant and and also the interviews can to. But that is just nit-picking. This is a great film that is worth renting whether you are a girl or a guy. This film really sparked my interest and even though I did not agree with some choices that were made in the end, I really liked this movie.
Maybe this is an interesting film if you're a New Yorker. If you're not, I'm sorry, but stereotype neurotic behaviors of New Yorkers just does not turn me on. Plus the majority of the lead players are unattractive (but there are some exceptions). If you want neurotic New Yorkers, go see Woody Allen movies, at least these are well made.
Heather Graham, in one of her better performances, and Dennis Farina as comedic relief, provide much of this film's minor merits. Otherwise, it's a pretty cynical exercise, and the device of having the characters talk to an unseen interviewer is made doubly annoying by the fact that the characters' observations are banal and uninteresting (the device was used to great effect in a French movie A Pornographic Affair). I found all the male characters to be thoroughly unsympathetic, ranging from pathetic (the doorman), totally lacking in introspection (Burns), and venal (Tucci). While I'm sure Burns would say the point was to show how screwed-up men can be, I don't think it does anybody any favours to repeatedly depict men stalking and showing up unannounced to exes and flames' apartments/houses. Reinforces that this is somewhat understandable and normal behaviour. And, aside from the one couple (perhaps), these characters' dwellings are preposterous given their station in life, unless we're to believe they all have large trust funds.