Somewhere in the City Movie Review 1997

Covers the screwy lives of six tenants of a Lower East Side New York apartment building. Betty (a subdued Bernhard) is an unlucky-in-love therapist who's still neurotically trying. She agrees to help out Chinese exchange student Lu Lu (Ling) who's desperately seeking a green card marriage. Then there's unhappy wife Marta (Muti), whose upstairs lover, Frankie (Burke), is a completely incompetent crook. There's also gay actor Graham (Stormare), who's disappointed personally and professionally, and basement-dwelling Che (Stewart), a trust-fund baby who wants to be a radical revolutionary. Sporadically amusing with a talented cast.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 93 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

New York, New York, Sex & Sexuality, Screwball Comedy

Screenplay

Ramin Niami, Patrick Dillon

Cast

Sandra Bernhard, Bai Ling, Ornella Muti, Robert John Burke, Peter Stormare, Paul Anthony Stewart, Bulle Ogier

Cinematography

Igor Sunara

Director

Ramin Niami

Music

John Cale

Other

Edward I. Koch

Producer

Artistic License Films