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the characters aren't likable
I saw "Alcatraz Avenue" on February 1, 2002 at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. The movie is about a struggling writer named David who rents a spare room from a Berkeley family. He wants to write a novel about an American family, so he observes the Contreras family. David puts listening devices in every room in the house so he can eavesdrop on the family and collect material for his novel. When real life events don't make for a juicy enough story, David manipulates the real life situation to where the family members turn against each other. An unhappy ending is just as well for this picture, because most of the characters aren't likable. The father is a deadbeat, and he is despicable enough, but I found David to be the worst character. All he cares about is his novel, and he doesn't care what harm he causes the family. This is not to say the movie is bad; it's just that one hopes for ill to happen to the characters, and it sure does.
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- godardjl
- Jan 31, 2002
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