Stick with it! The frustration emulates that of the homeless. Don't look for answers and happy endings. With most of the homeless there aren't. What they get is malnutrition and a sinking into mental illness, some more quickly and some more gradually. The constant harassment of life, consistent entangling with "the system", and the spoiling of all dreams big and small all contribute to this. You see all of this here.Richard Gere gave a stellar performance at just the right speed and perfect pitch. This is the best I've seen him in and I am not a fan. Ben Verene is annoying beyond possible. I also wanted to tell him to stop talking at the same point Gere does. Verene does a spot on job as well. The authorities are not painted as evil, just people doing their boring jobs and trying to get through their tasks.I wish they would have spent more time on the father daughter relationship. That deserves a whole movie of its own, maybe the sequel: Street Smarts. ;-) play on words!

I think it's one of the things that makes this movie not come. The director insists on leaving the character alone, only the camera is always too far away. I think he does it to leave Gere alone on the street and see how the people around him react, but he does not realize that really, everyone who walks by his side walks without paying attention to anyone, not just him, but nobody. The movie takes a long time to start. We see him doing the same thing over and over again, always at a distance and we do not empathize. We do not know anything about him. Then it starts and you only see that he complains about everything, even when he can have a help and be able to pull up complains. Yes, nobody deserves to be like this, but if they try to help you, thank them and take them. We almost got to know more other characters than him.Even so, the actors are great. I find it curious to see from time to time how Richard is and how he escapes that walk of person with a lot of class and style, I have always thought that he was one of the actors with the most cinema style. Although it tries to walk like collapsed but sometimes it can not avoid it and they escape to him.I do not like photography, I do not think you have to make a bad photograph to talk about the street. It would have to be cold because of the situation but not insipid.I am very pleased that you have done that haircut with piercing and that you see the scar. If I had it long I understand that this bad cut but being short why?The director does not know how boring it is. If we had known why it is there and how it happens in a more enjoyable way, the film would have won. Only knows how to place the camera at a distance and only manages to leave you at a distance from the character. It makes a long film, too long and the end, which for me is not closed, it will serve him, not me.I would not see her again

A simple story of a complicated life. A lonely man who was someone sometime is now reduced to the condition of a homeless and family less looking for shelter and food. He has no identity card of any kind which makes it difficult for him to get social security help or even a birth certificate copy. He was somebody once, he is nobody now and knows it. He has got an estranged daughter whom he meets from time to time at the bar where she works but who doesn't want to have any kind of relationship with him although she helps him sometimes with a beer or little money. He travels from homeless shelter to homeless shelter and subjects himself to long bureaucratic questionings trying to get documentary and security help. He meets another homeless man, an Afroamerican with whom he establishes a more humane relationship. This one is rather talkative and boasts of being (or having been) a jazz player. The last scene seems to show however that may be a more sentimental relation with his estranged daughter is about to start. Richard Gere does an excellent job as the protagonist.

A tough movie to watch to say the least. It's not all shine and glory in this one. A lot of people would say this movie qualifies as "waste of time". And it is, if you cannot tune into the mindset and the general idea of the movie. What it tries to tell us and how it tries to achieve that goal. It could easily be a documentary. Actually some scenes could be have been shot "on the fly".Gere goes all out for a role that really is tough to pull off. Homeless people are not something most of us are concerned, especially when it does affect us directly. And it is showing with how we handle them or how we approach them (there are a few things/scenes early on, that underline that sentiment). It's drama and if you are prepared for it, the movie will reward you. But if it's not your thing, you'll know early on and shouldn't continue to watch ...