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DVD : UrbaniaIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Dan Futterman, Paige Turco, Scott Denny, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Lothaire Bluteau directed by: Jon Shear  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9781588171344 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 1588171345 Label: Lions Gate Manufacturer: Lions Gate Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Lions Gate Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 13, 2001 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Lions Gate Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Sales Rank: 30405 MPN: D7610D Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Jon Shear's film, one of the overlooked gems of 2000, simmers under a tense, disturbing air of inevitability. Charlie (Dan Futterman) wanders the nighttime streets of the city, a mournful lost soul determinedly pursuing a mysterious stranger whom he is convinced holds the key to his redemption. He encounters chatty bartenders, pompous pickups, and dying friends (including a biting Alan Cumming), and before long you are treated to that rare, great surprise of realizing that you have no idea where any of it is headed. Some of Shear and Daniel Reitz's play-based dialogue is stagy, but the mercurial Futterman, both subtly sympathetic and unstable, is superlative. The film surrounds him with loopy urban legends (the poodle in the microwave, the AIDS-infected one-night-stand, etc.), then cunningly lifts the veil on such stories to reveal the fear motivating them. Uncertainty and isolation create the need for fantastic terrors. Shear hauntingly suggests here how much more horrifying and heartbreaking real life can be. --Steve Wiecking Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Story will stay with youVery engaging story thanks to the good looks of the main character Charlie who engages with several people throughout the movie. At times sad, at times scary, this is a movie that will have you frustrated as well as enthralled. The acting is superb and the situations unique. Rating: - Urban Legends and Harsh Realities"Urbania" Urban Legends and Harsh Realities Amos Lassen Charlie (Dan Futterman) is spending a lonely night in New York City and is privy to a series of bizarre events all of which lead to the redemption he has been seeking. His stay in New York is an odyssey of grief. Some of the things that happened to him are planned and some happen by chance. He is in a city full of violence and legends and stories and he lives and tells these stories. This is a unique ... Read More Rating: - Awesome movieOutstanding DVD. All the actors give superior performances. Very well directed and filmed the story line is riviting and keeps a fast pace. This is a must own for any collector who enjoys a strong plot and great acting. Rating:  - Ok, I got one and this really happened. I sware.......Heard any good stories lately? Based on the play "Urban Folk Tales", This film is a bit bizarre and hard to follow. It is the story of a man who's life is unravelling at the seams after a tragedy left him alone and trying to find a way to survive the horror in his mind, which haunts him with every passing minute. We've all heard the horror stories that circulate in email. Those stories, called "urban legends", boast horrendous things that supposedly happened to "a friend of my friends cousin" or whatever, ... Read More Rating: - URBANIA IS Hard To Follow At First But Eventually YOU GET IT AND THEN SOME!I always reveal early when a film I review has a gay theme to it. I feel it is the least I can do for the gentle folk who are not into watching DVD's with a positive or affirming gay message. Also Urbania also touches on elements gay life that are plenty violent. Urbania is not for the weak minded or those with weak stomachs. Urbania is more real than most gay stroies on film despite its sometimes etherial messages. That said lets get on with it. First you must know I am autistic ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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