johns

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Summary: Touching Portrait of Street Hustlers
Review: I was pleasently surprised after watching this film. I wanted to pick up Lukas Haas and hug him--he was so adorable. David Arquette did his finest work to date. Despite some very minor flaws in the plot, the overall effect of the movie lasts for days after you watch it. A must see!!

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Summary: male prostitutes in Hollywood
Review: If you are interested in a movie about young male prostitutes in Hollywood that get beat-up by their tricks and drug dealers, then this is the flick for you. This film has no redeeming qualities.

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Summary: speechless and shaken
Review: if you have not seen this film
stop
go to the store now
rent it
sit alone
in a dark room
and breathe this film
like you would morning coffee
I cried and sat terrified
I felt this film
throughout my entire body
this is an amazing film
so true
some that find it disturbing
only can't take the bitter spoonful
and stomach the taste
of something
called

l i f e

please watch it

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Summary: So-so plot, great performances
Review: Isn't anyone else utterly charmed by David Arquette? I don't want to be, but I just can't help myself. His vibrancy, his smile, his energy all combine to make him an almost annoyingly appealling actor. If he was a friend, I know that I would forgive him a thousand excesses, and don't we all know someone like that? This is the character he plays in "Johns", and yet seems somehow not to be acting. Lukas Haas shows us a tender and sweet side, in a solid performance.Maybe the plot was a bit sucky. One reviewer below said it perfectly, it sure feels like a pampered film school fellow's vision of what Life On the Street for Less Fortunate Boys would be like. It's the acting by Hass, and particularly Arquette, that makes this film worth checking out.

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Summary: Closed Captioned?
Review: l was told that this movie is not closed captioned by other source and was wondering if this movie is on the rental market.

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Summary: Haas and Arquette save this movie
Review: Movie has uneven editing and symbolism that isn't needed. But the strong performances of Haas and Arquette make it a worthwhile look. I liked the Hollywood ending which may not satisfy some viewers. I liked this better than My Own Private Idaho which has a similar theme.

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Summary: Worth a Look
Review: Not-bad calling card for Hollywood, until you realize that the director's next project was "The Mod Squad" a movie that lacks any of the potential shown here. Although this movie about El Lay hustlers has its faults--too many trite plot trappings when a solid character piece lurks beneath--the performances are very good. David Arquette, Lukas Haas, and "guest star" Elliott Gould are very effective. Contains the expected abundance of "F words" and seedy situations.

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Summary: Worth a Look
Review: Not-bad calling card for Hollywood, until you realize that the director's next project was "The Mod Squad" a movie that lacks any of the potential shown here. Although this movie about El Lay hustlers has its faults--too many trite plot trappings when a solid character piece lurks beneath--the performances are very good. David Arquette, Lukas Haas, and "guest star" Elliott Gould are very effective. Contains the expected abundance of "F words" and seedy situations.

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Summary: Where the day takes you
Review: Rookie writer-director Scott Silver blows a promising premise.

It's Christmas Eve, and John (David Arquette) -- a young but experienced Los Angeles street hustler -- is trying to teach the ropes to innocent Donner (Lukas Haas).

John has recently stolen money from a drug dealer, and Donner's naive attempts to help him out result in tragedy. The first part of this film is convincingly gritty and wry; Silver effectively captures the relentlessly ugly, smog-bound atmosphere that envelopes Los Angeles. But as John's problems mount up, the story takes a wrong turn into TV movie of the week-dom.

Silver compounds the problem with heavy-handed music -- a capella religious choruses, Silent Night at a crucial juncture --and his use of a wordless, homeless black man (Keith David), who appears intermittently like an angel of mercy.

Arquette is effective in a young Dennis Hopper sort of way -- appealing one minute, repulsively mannered the next -- but Haas' shy fawn in the urban jungle characterization doesn't wear well.

Several familiar faces crop up in small roles, including Nina Siemaszko, John C. McGinley and Elliott Gould, who's alarmingly effective as a particularly needy client. The fact that multiple characters are named "John" is a joke that wears thin well before the movie comes to an end.

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Summary: Avoid at all costs....
Review: The box looks intriguing but this movie is a complete waste of time. It looks like it was filmed in one take with each actor listening to a different director. No one knows what they're supposed to be doing or what their character is supposed to be about. It also seems like it is an attempt to portray gay life on the street by someone raised in Salt Lake City, or the Vatican. Completely out of touch with reality and filled with simple stereotypes. I could only take about 40 minutes then switched it off.