Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Street Beat's mobile units operate five nights a week. On this evening the medical van pulls up to a quiet corner below a harsh streetlight that illuminates closed-up warehouses and auto-body shops. The pavement glistens with water from fire hydrants, which addicts tap to clean their needles. One woman paces the sidewalk with her skirt pulled above her waist, and another crouches on the ground injecting heroin into her arm. Lines of cars circle the block. Girls, men and older couples flock toward...
...Sunday is the only day of quiet and the neighborhood appreciates it," Miskell said...
...just been slapped out of a deep sleep, brings a wondrous dignity and discipline to Edward. Wiest does a delightful turn on the plucky, loving mothers from old sitcoms. The whole movie, in fact, time-travels between today and the '50s, when every suburban house could be a quiet riot of coordinated pastels. But the film exists out of time -- out of the present cramped time, certainly -- in the any-year of a child's imagination. That child could be the little girl to whom the grandmotherly Ryder tells Edward's story nearly a lifetime after it took place...
...quiet suburb of Dublin, this psychodrama unfolds over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over a tense...
...second act, Billy and Teddy proceed to disrupt the quiet veneer of domestic complacency which characterizes Billy's suburban existence. They do so slowly, artfully--skeletons emerge from the closet of each character in the first act, preparing the audience for Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second act. Rodriguez turns a brilliant performance as Billy's friend from the asylum, whose mercurial energy and neurotic intensity combine with keen wit and perception. As Billy's lawyer in this card-game-turned-trial, Teddy embodies the insanity of the everyday as much as he exposes...