Steel City (Brian Jun, 2007) - B+
In a season with distressingly few movies to love, I almost latched on to this one -- a straightforward, quietly touching dispatch from the sort of blue-collar universe we so rarely see in the movies (and no, Blue Collar Comedy Tour doesn't count). Fittingly, it takes a realist moral posture: the storyline involves a father (John Heard) who voluntarily goes to jail for his son's (Tom Guiry) deadly accident, but the movie doesn't lecture about abstract notions of responsibility; the focus instead is on the father's guilt about his relationship with the son, and the possibility that the latter could actually grow to be happy. Brian Jun's eminently small screenplay is filled with the sort of genuine, unpretentious emotion I've been missing at the movies lately. Sadly the story gets sidetracked in the third act, spending unnecessary time on the dad's issues, and for a while Steel City grows ponderous and a little boring. And while Heard is fine, Tom Guiry's steady performance could easily have carried the film.
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Typical Sean Penn b.s. I read the book and, frankly, this kid needed help, not sainthood in the eyes of yet another Hollywood idiot who thinks the world of himself, but not of reality. On Penn's misguided storytelling, the result will be sending a bunch of kids off chasing rainbows, at their own distress, because Sean Penn wants to save the world from itself. What a fool he really is.
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