A picture that pulls you right into the action and then rips you apart. Totally uncompromising in its harsh depiction of an urban, Brooklyn life. The characters are so real, yet difficult to define or even pin down. None of them are in a job or remotely employable, though on the other hand make pretty lightweight (inept) criminals. I have never seen a more realistic or groundbreaking film period and it's really a simple case of 'life imitating art', or should that be the other way around!? Takes that nasty, gritty feel to a whole new level. With superstar Peter Greene.

You can't tell where the film crew is or their equipment, because the whole thing is so close to reality that you can't even call this a real movie. Its more than a movie, its like you're there. You're hanging out with these egregious people, on the street, in their apartments, in the bars they hang out in..its really amazing.

Not one of the actors makes one false move and you can't say that about very many movies. But like I said, they didn't appear to even BE actors in the first place. I wonder if there was a lot of improv between the actors, everything they said was so real.

You can't say a lot really happens, either, but that's exactly like real life, too!

From what I just read, this was made for the amount of money Julia Roberts makes for filming one or two scenes. Whoever said life was fair?

An absolutely flawless, pristine cinematic experience. A piece of true life, modern film doesn't get any better than this. I will not speak of the actors, because there is no acting. You live days in the lives of living, breathing people. If you have lived in a large city, the realism will so shock and beguile you that you will be left breathless. You smell the streets, you feel the silent despair, you know in your heart that something terrible, something tragic lurks around the corner for every character. A masterful, incredible experience that I am shocked so few have had the chance to enjoy. When all of us wanted to be filmmakers, this is what we wanted to achieve.