MacArthur Park
by Billy Wirth
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Actor: Bad Azz, Brandon Quintin Adams, B-Real, Tami Roman, Thomas Jefferson ByrdDirector: Billy Wirth
Writer: Billy Wirth
Producer: Alan Harris
Producer: Beata Rosenbaum
Writer: Aaron Courseault
Writer: Josefina Lopez
Writer: Sheri Sussman
Writer: Tyrone Atkins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of MacArthur Park
Movie Review: MACARTHUR PARK: The Best Film of 2001 noone saw!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival for my birthday. It was there along with Grand Prize winner "The Believer" (the first film I saw), "Scotland, PA" and "Julie Johnson" (a still to be released small masterpiece with Lili Taylor and Courtney Love - yes, that courtney love - in a tale of self-discovery, redirection and newly born lesbianism). But Billy Wirth's "MacArthur Park" has an amazing ensemble led by underrated and underused Thomas Jefferson Byrd (good cineasts will recognize him from several Spike Lee joints, such as "Clockers", "Get on the Bus", "He Got Game" and his best role yet, prior to this film, in the overlooked and oft-misunderstood "Bamboozled").
It also has ex SNL alum Ellen Cleghorn (of WB sitcom fame), Lori Petty, Balthazar Getty (from Lynch's "Lost Highway"), and others.
The story is a disturbing but documentary like account of 48 hours in the life of homeless drug addicts and dealers and the people who float in and out of their orbit in LA's MacArthur Park.
It's an exhilirating, powerful and astonishing directorial debut that began as a documentary and took on actors to dramatize director-writer-actor Wirth's notes, fleshing out reality into a more palatable format (if you like your harsh truths and gritty reality in glossy, well-made fiction form).
Either way you take it, "MacArthur Park" is a diamond in the rough, an overlooked gem which is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Summary of MacArthur Park
Life in the park is daily warfare with rival gangs, police raids, the wealthy decadents who now come for drugs and the ongoing demons of addiction. This is where we meet Cody, once a dedicated family man whose addiction to crack cocaine met no criticism and was welcomed by others like him. The harder Cody tries to escape the parameters of the park, the more it seems to close in on him. Finally, Cody surrenders his pipe to reclaim a relationship with this son and a life outside MacArthur Park.
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