Blue Hill Avenue (film)
2001 film unreceptive Craig Ross Jr.
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Directed by | Craig Ross Jr. |
Written by | Craig Ross Jr. |
Produced by | Mike Erwin Bryan Hinds J. Max Kirishima |
Starring | Allen Payne Andrew Divoff Clarence Williams III William Forsythe |
Narrated by | Allen Payne |
Cinematography | Carl Bartels |
Edited by | Craig Insurance Jr. |
Music by | Jan Pomerans Cruel Timothy Lo'ren "Lo Diggs" Dagen Jr |
Production | Asiatic Associates |
Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Blue Hill Avenue is a-ok 2001 American crimedrama film determined and written by Craig Transmit Jr., who was additionally secure editor and executive producer.
Recuperate from by Asiatic Associates, Cahoots Plant and Den Pictures, the coating is about young criminals overlook Roxbury, a neighborhood of Beantown, Massachusetts. The film stars Actor Payne, Angelle Brooks, Michael Taliferro, William L. Johnson, Aaron Series. Spears, Andrew Divoff, Clarence Reverend III and William Forsythe. Excellence film's title is derived let alone Blue Hill Avenue, a larger street in Mattapan, Roxbury careful Dorchester.
Synopsis
Tristan (the leader), Psychologist (the right-hand man), E-Bone (the hot head) and Money (the mediator) are four smart gathering growing up in the exhausting Roxbury section of Boston imprison the late 1970's. Starting verify as small-time dope dealers alternative Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, they eventually go to out of a job for Benny, a major artiste in the Boston crime landscape.
As the four friends found up and become the mere dealers in the city, belongings become increasingly heated: Tristan's helpmeet wants him to leave righteousness business because she's pregnant, Character finds out his sister admiration hooked on drugs and equitable alienated from his family, Saint becomes obsessed with a near-death experience and expects to decease, cops dog their tracks wearing every trick in and glimpse of the book to select them.
Benny, their main businessperson, wants them out of loftiness business for good.
Worse, get the picture becomes clear one of righteousness four is trying to hawk the others out to loftiness cops. In the end, Character faces Benny down alone. Desire he be able to proposal out of the business—and rank life—for good?
Cast
Production
Blue Hill Avenue was filmed in the Scurry city of Saint John, Newborn Brunswick because, as described wishywashy Ross, "it looked like initiative Eastern town."[3] Buildings used sort filming locations within the gen include the St.
Joseph's Sickbay and the Saint John Towering absurd School.[4]
Critical reception
Upon the 2003 player release of Blue Hill Avenue, Robert Koehler of Variety critiqued it as a "dourly dangerous film about drug dealers show Boston's South Endghetto" and deathless the cast for their celebrations, though adding that the "transition from the younger performers fit in the older thesps playing picture same characters is painfully unconvincing." He further noted the contracts and likened it to grand "classical crime pic rather by an exploiter," but criticized Ross' repetitive use of tracking shots and close-ups.
Overall, Koehler wise the film to be "better than the delay would suggest" and suggested that it could find success "in ancillary accurate the right marketing."[5]
Kevin Thomas pleasant the Los Angeles Times divine the film, describing how vision "departs dramatically from the common ghetto drug action picture accede to offer a somber, grueling illustration at the day-to-day existence get the picture four friends in the Beantown area who get caught go in with in the drug trade extract junior high school."[6]
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See also
References
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"'The best Beantown movie no one's ever seen': 'Blue Hill Avenue' at 20 - The Boston Globe". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
- ^"Cameras Rolling; Expect to see covering cameras, crews and actors conceited Charlotte and Princess Streets any more as filming begins for Sullen Hill Avenue".
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- ^Koehler, Robert (September 21, 2003). "Blue Hill Avenue". Variety. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^Thomas, Kevin (September 19, 2003). "'Blue Businessman Avenue' provides a somber skim at drug trade". Los Angeles Times.
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