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Ten Thousand Saints
Jude is a teenage boy who is trying to reconnect with his father Les in 1987 Manhattan. When Jude's friend, Teddy, dies of a drug overdose, Jude finds himself befriending a group of friends who are against drugs, alcohol, profanity and sex and live for punk-style rock music. When he meets Eliza, who is sixteen years old and is pregnant with Teddy's child, he and Les are forced to be her rock as she struggles through her pregnancy and early motherhood while Jude struggles with his feelings for her and his relationship with his father.
11 December 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 November 1970, Austin, Texas, USA
9 February 1992, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
18 October 1985, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
February 25, 2016
Equal parts sensitive and overwrought, intelligent and preachy.
August 28, 2015
The movie feels like a quickly-sketched version of something much, much bigger.
August 20, 2015
The film shows all the earmarks of a story too heavily compressed; the complications among the entwined families pile up after a while, and the period milieu feels arbitrary.
August 20, 2015
It's far from a perfect film, but when it locks on to an emotionally complex moment, the feature succeeds more than a fails.
August 14, 2015
It's a sensitive and interesting film.
August 27, 2015
For a movie with extremely loud punk-rock music at its core, "Ten Thousand Saints" is a pleasantly low-key experience; it's a small-scale character drama about learning to live with loss.
August 13, 2015
"Ten Thousand Saints" pulsates with full-blooded supporting characters who create a tragic-absurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the Ronald Reagan years, from depressed New England to volatile New York. It's too bad the center cannot hold.
August 20, 2015
Jude, our narrator, is paper thin. His most memorable qualities are his gangly frame and his bright blue eyes.
September 02, 2015
The emotionally uneven film is more intriguing in parts than as a whole, with the periphery characters often more compelling than the somewhat passive protagonist.
August 18, 2015
The cinematography by Ben Kutchins works more from grime than grim, capturing a battered backdrop for the characters rather than a cartoon battlefield of drugs and crime/
April 22, 2016
Lacks resonance and a steady directorial hand.
August 20, 2015
Ethan Hawke is so funny in Ten Thousand Saints that he nearly keeps the movie afloat.
