Dennis Farina gives a strong performance as a rather pathetic small time hustler, who after spending six weeks in the hospital, for pneumonia, finds out his apartment has been re-rented, his belongings tossed, and his car towed and auctioned off.
The woman(Jamie Anne Allman)who was given his apartment feels sorry for him and offers Farina a room for a weekly fee and Farina accepts. He soon finds out she has a terribly sadistic and abusive boyfriend, who's a Chicago cop.
Farina, who loves opera and raising pigeons on the roof, soon hits the streets trying to hustle up some merchandise to sell. Visiting old contacts, who regard him a "joke' his efforts only earn him more misery.
In failing health, he tries to reconcile with his son, to no avail.
As the abuse of Allman, for whom Farina had been slowing bonding with as well as her daughter, worsens you can see which way the film is heading, and it bleakly doesn't disappoint.
The acting, especially by Farina, but also by Allman and her abusive boyfriend (Ian Barford) is very solid but the depressing and grim nature of the film left me turned off and cold.
The woman(Jamie Anne Allman)who was given his apartment feels sorry for him and offers Farina a room for a weekly fee and Farina accepts. He soon finds out she has a terribly sadistic and abusive boyfriend, who's a Chicago cop.
Farina, who loves opera and raising pigeons on the roof, soon hits the streets trying to hustle up some merchandise to sell. Visiting old contacts, who regard him a "joke' his efforts only earn him more misery.
In failing health, he tries to reconcile with his son, to no avail.
As the abuse of Allman, for whom Farina had been slowing bonding with as well as her daughter, worsens you can see which way the film is heading, and it bleakly doesn't disappoint.
The acting, especially by Farina, but also by Allman and her abusive boyfriend (Ian Barford) is very solid but the depressing and grim nature of the film left me turned off and cold.