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God's Pocket

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God's Pocket

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A construction worker believes his life will be simpler following the death of his troublemaking stepson. However, he finds things go from bad to worse as his relationship with his wife deteriorates and a reporter grows suspicious about the tragedy. Drama based on Peter Dexter's novel, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Damon Wise

Life in a 1980s blue-collar Philadelphia neighbourhood is the focus of this haphazard black comedy drama, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Pete Dexter and featuring one of the last ever performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sadly, he's the best thing about it, playing Mickey, a mob-connected gambler and petty criminal whose obnoxious stepson Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) is killed on a construction site. The crew says it was an accident but Mickey's wife Jeanie (an underused Christina Hendricks) isn't so sure, and drives Mickey to play amateur detective. Disappointingly, this isn't the only strand of Mad Men star John Slattery's directorial debut, which also includes a woefully unsuccessful framing device featuring a drunken local newspaper columnist (Richard Jenkins) making moves on the traumatised Jeanie. Add a crooked florist, an Irish funeral director, some dire dark humour involving Leon's corpse and the whole is a fitfully amusing Our Town that struggles to come to any kind of meaningful conclusion.

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6.1/10

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Cast

rolenameMickey ScarpatoPhilip Seymour HoffmanJeanie ScarpatoChristina HendricksRichard ShellburnRichard JenkinsArthur "Bird" CapezioJohn TurturroColeman PeetsGlenn FleshlerLeon HubbardCaleb Landry JonesSmilin' Jack MoranEddie MarsanSal CappiDomenick LombardozziMole FerrellJack O'Connell (1)McKennaPeter GeretyJoanieMolly Price

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rolenameDirectorJohn Slattery

Details

Theatrical distributor

Arrow Film Distributors Ltd

Released on

2014-08-08

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sex scenes.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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