Glass Chin
After going down in the fifth round, Bud Gordon, a former welterweight champ, has retired early from boxing, but is unsatisfied living out of the limelight in New Jersey. And now Bud is forced to make a choice between friendship and ambition when he is framed for murder.
6 September 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
8 August 1977, Rocky River, Ohio, USA
8 July 1968, Manhasset, New York, USA
17 July 1963, Ridgewood, Queens, New York, USA
31 January 1959, Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA
27 December 1980, New York, USA
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
July 15, 2015
It's a truly nifty little neo-noir gem that deserves to find an audience.
June 25, 2015
[Writer/director Noah] Buschel has written some of the most naturalistic, reasonable-people talk you'll ever hear in a movie.
June 26, 2015
The true measure of a good tale is in the telling, and writer-director Noah Buschel spins his yarn in an unexpected, ultimately satisfying fashion.
June 24, 2015
Glass Chin is a sturdy drama delivering some heavy emotional blows, even if it doesn't score a knockout.
June 25, 2015
Punchy dialogue, sharply drawn characters and excellent performances fuel "Glass Chin," an intimate drama that's set in the boxing world but is about so much more.
June 26, 2015
Story-wise, nothing in Glass Chin will surprise you. But stylistically, the film's got something cool going on.
June 25, 2015
Corey Stoll is the only reason to sit through this muddled Jersey-set drama.
June 25, 2015
Despite an appealing fondness for New York locations and habits, Mr. Buschel and his cinematographer, Ryan Samul, have embalmed their film in style.
June 26, 2015
It's compact and stripped down, but it contains multitudes.
June 24, 2015
Stoll and Ireland are both in top form-Ireland, in particular, brings heartbreaking depth to a part that usually gets short shrift in noirs.
July 15, 2015
It's Crudup who steals every scene, whether he's waxing philosophical about the benefits of iCloud or blackmailing Bud with a charming, unsettling grin.
June 25, 2015
A familiar story of a struggling ex-boxer who winds up in bed with a mobster, Noah Buschel's Glass Chin tries to spin a 1930s B movie premise into a contemporary art film. And it almost works.
