2008 · drama
Prince of Broadway (2008)
Directed by Sean Baker1h 42m2008
A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.
Our read: Prince of Broadway (2008) (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
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