The Local
The Local
| 01 January 2008 (USA)
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A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.

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chefdan711

Script is boring, characters undeveloped, plot unimaginative, anticlimactic, horrible camera affects, and just all-around waste of time...unless it was someones homework assignment...then I'd give em a D+...But since this was actually written, directed, and produced into this mess and then put out into the world for others to view...then I must say that Dan Eberle,you are an epic failure! Steer clear of this film that should have been put out in the garbage...There is some brief full-frontal female nudity, but not long enough, nor satisfying enough, to warrant any amount of the time spent suffering through this junk.

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dbborroughs

Drug dealer who is clean himself gets involved with several characters including getting paid to get back a man's kidnapped relative.Good but not great truly independent film may look and play out like other urban dramas but manages to rise above them thanks to a good script, a game (if somewhat uneven) cast and a singular and gritty vision. Unlikely to ever win a legion of fans, simply because I can't see this ever finding a huge audience because of its independent nature (some people simply don't want anything other than mainstream Hollywood), this is still a small film that's worth seeing simply because its better than similar films.This is one to keep an eye out for

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ddbii

This movies musical equivalent would be Raw Power by Iggy Pop on first listen it seems too gritty and haphazard but you can't deny the genius. You start thinking about how with a little work you could really market this stuff to the masses. But eventually you come to your senses and realize you would never listen to crap that they market to the masses anyway Everyone in this film looks as if they need of a good scrubbing and a shot of penicillin. Dan Eberle is amazing take Vin Diesel combine him with a street addict than beat your creation with a sock full of nickels and you've got the character he plays. Unfortunately I think this movie will be lost on a lot of folks. I remember reading In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway for the first time and didn't know what the hell was going on till I realized that each story was a vignette. This movie is much the same we pop in somewhere in the middle and things go from there. Dan Eberle has created a character that is a lot more than he's letting on and is seeking redemption for things only alluded. I know everyone's gonna puke but I really would like to see more of this character to fill in a few of the gaps. This movie succeeds in capturing the feel of the street a lot like Taxi Driver did in the 70's and Dan Eberle could be the anti hero model for the New Millennium.

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in1984

The story is overly simplistic and melodramatic, like some slightly better than after-school teen film.I.e., yet another boring inner city drug drama.Impressive technically, but little more. The acting is all impressive (excluding Eberle who is also the writer and would have been better off writing himself a cameo role). The score, soundtrack, and filming all help make the film tolerable. Hopefully everyone except Eberle will get better films to be in from now on.So what do you watch instead? Gamer has some similar sub-story lines and written into a more interesting film overall.

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