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Urbania

Country: United States, Language: English, 103 mins

  • Director: Jon Shear
  • Writer: Daniel Reitz, Jon Shear
  • Producer: Jon Shear, Stephanie Golden, J. Todd Harris

CGiii Comment

Intelligent, intense, harsh, and harrowing.

Exceptional film-making.

Why, Mr Shear, have you made no more?


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The(ir) Blurb...

Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in the flat above him, with a bartender and a one-night-stand he follows home, and with a tattooed stranger whom he seeks out and befriends. Along the way, Charlie inhabits a city full of moments of violence and of stories and legends: a kidney thief, a microwaved poodle, a rat in a hot dog bun, a baby left on a car top, a tourist's toothbrush, needles in public-phone change slots. Charlie lives and tells his own stories. What caused his melancholy?

Cast & Characters

Dan Futterman as Charlie;
Samuel Ball as Dean;
Lothaire Bluteau as Bill;
Alan Cumming as Brett;
Josh Hamilton as Matt;
Matt Keeslar as Chris;
James Simon as Sam;
Megan Dodds as Deedee;
Gabriel Olds as Ron;
Barbara Sukowa as Clara - The Married Woman;
Gerry Bamman as Don;
Scott Denny as Ken;
Pamela Shaw as Judy - The Photo Lady;
David Wheir as Gary;
Christopher Bradley as Efraim - The Window Couple