Proud1p4
11th Aug 2008, 02:31 PM
Just finished watching this film.
I sat down with not much expectation but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the acting and direction.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/27/arts/28shel600.jpg
A confused young artist is torn between his family and his future in “Shelter,” a sensitive romantic drama from the writer and director Jonah Markowitz.
Set in the working-class San Pedro area of Los Angeles, the movie centers on Zach (Trevor Wright), a short-order cook. Between shifts Zach pursues a desultory relationship with his girlfriend, Tori (Katie Walder), and acts as surrogate father to his 5-year-old nephew, Cody (Jackson Wurth). His real passion, however, is painting, expressed in the stenciled graffiti he sprays on neighborhood buildings and in the art-school dreams that his selfish sister (Tina Holmes) is determined to sabotage.
Everything changes when Zach finds himself drawn to Shaun (Brad Rowe), a confident writer and eager enabler of all of Zach’s passions.
While the film may be lacking in some respects and in certain scenes the emotion didn't carry through as well as it could have; all in all it was a leg up for a blockbuster quality movie.
My rating, 3 and a half stars out of 5. (I am hard to please)
Your thoughts?
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http://www.gpproductions.biz/shelterposter.jpg
NY Times : link (http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/movies/28shel.html)
Wikipedia : link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_(2007_film))
IMDB : link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942384/)
SIDE NOTE: The film is rating R, but after watching the movie start from finish the only "objectionable" context was the occasional use of foul language, and offscreen sex. Also there is a very brief scene of drug use (marijuana).
Which according to Canadian standards warrants a rating of 14A at the most.
I sat down with not much expectation but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the acting and direction.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/27/arts/28shel600.jpg
A confused young artist is torn between his family and his future in “Shelter,” a sensitive romantic drama from the writer and director Jonah Markowitz.
Set in the working-class San Pedro area of Los Angeles, the movie centers on Zach (Trevor Wright), a short-order cook. Between shifts Zach pursues a desultory relationship with his girlfriend, Tori (Katie Walder), and acts as surrogate father to his 5-year-old nephew, Cody (Jackson Wurth). His real passion, however, is painting, expressed in the stenciled graffiti he sprays on neighborhood buildings and in the art-school dreams that his selfish sister (Tina Holmes) is determined to sabotage.
Everything changes when Zach finds himself drawn to Shaun (Brad Rowe), a confident writer and eager enabler of all of Zach’s passions.
While the film may be lacking in some respects and in certain scenes the emotion didn't carry through as well as it could have; all in all it was a leg up for a blockbuster quality movie.
My rating, 3 and a half stars out of 5. (I am hard to please)
Your thoughts?
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http://www.gpproductions.biz/shelterposter.jpg
NY Times : link (http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/movies/28shel.html)
Wikipedia : link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_(2007_film))
IMDB : link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942384/)
SIDE NOTE: The film is rating R, but after watching the movie start from finish the only "objectionable" context was the occasional use of foul language, and offscreen sex. Also there is a very brief scene of drug use (marijuana).
Which according to Canadian standards warrants a rating of 14A at the most.