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Night and the City

1992

Irwin Winkler

Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Eli Wallach, Cliff Gorman ...

5.6

847

Drama Harry Fabian is a fast-talking ambulance chaser. He sues and settles, looking to make it big as he carries on an affair with the wife of the owner of his Manhattan cafe hang out. While losing a case to a local mobster who fronts as a sports promoter, Fabian whiffs his future at a boxing gym - he decides to be an impresario. For protection from the mobster, he recruits the boss's older brother as his judge of talent, he books a hall, he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The basic problem here is that everybody from Winkler to screenwriter Richard Price to the talented supporting cast (...) tries too hard"	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"With Price's gritty script, the committed collaboration of De Niro, solid work from Lange, Gorman and King, and Tak Fujimoto's vivid cinematography, 'Night and The City' has much to recommend it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"When you remove the heightened visual and dramatic style from the 1951 film (...) you realize how weak the story is (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Lively performances, pungent New York City atmosphere and an abundance of dramatic incident keep this story of an irrepressible lowlife hustler ripping along."	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"While the characters are certainly engaging, they often lack motivational coherency (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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