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      Laws of Gravity

      R 1992 1 hr. 40 min. Crime Drama List
      100% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 81% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Tragedy follows a Brooklyn hoodlum (Peter Greene), his wife (Edie Falco) and his attempt to bail out his violent buddy (Adam Trese). Read More Read Less

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      Aldo G Feels like a string of acting class scenes with inexperienced, but talented, actors told to improvise. There's lots overlapping dialogue and tension. The camera rarely shows a wide shot. Everything is lensed super-tight with a focus on the actors and not the inner-city streets. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Gritty and convincing glimpse into life in Brooklyn in the late 80's/early 90''s that devolves often into a shouting match where everyone is talking at once and trying to talk louder than everyone else.... which, naturally, does get annoying like it does in reality but the authenticity keeps the focus and attention. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member OMG when I saw this I was like it was half the abhorrent morons I used to see around growing up. The way it was shot I thought I was back in the Bronx (except they're in Brooklyn). A $38,000 ($70k today) budget and it is better than most of Disney's multimillion live version of their animation garbage crappola. It was real as I mean I seen these people around. Thank heavens I kept my nose clean, did my homework & played ball as I could have fell in with the egregious wastes. Denise (Falco) and Jimmy are married. The girl works and tries to be clean while Greene (jimmy) is a wannabe hood and doesn't have a real job. (Mayor Giuliani NYC of the 90's you really had to be an idiot if you couldn't get a job) A friend comes back from Florida gun running and they hang out (drinking & smoking) in a low and out neighborhood bar. The other couple (Terese & Field) are just losers and you make a couple from losers the sum of a double negative isn't English syntax as you get a positive : in life the sum is even 2 bigger inept moron that comes from the union . I felt like I was back at school at Fordham University looking at the inefficacious group a few tables away (we were the college boys & girls) at Van Courtland Park picnicking. The way it was filmed you feel as if you're there. You can tell a lot of ad lib. [Goof, John goes to jail with no t-shirt and no socks, but comes out with a t-shirt on under his shirt and socks.] Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A truly good movie we'll put together great actors great storyline and really seems like it could happen to somebody someday watch this movie I really enjoy it Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Amazing little indie!!! Total gem Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member When 'Laws of Gravity' first came out, I was 13 years old, and I thought it was a documentary. It stuck with me ever since, and as I watch it again years later, only for the second time, it's baffling how such a bad group of actors, could pull off something not only this good, but this realistic. It almost feels like an HBO doc, as you follow these people around. It's a 100 minute movie, that feels like 40, because the time just flies by - and when it ends, it leaves you wondering 'what happened next?' Seriously, I wanna know - what happened next? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      David Ansen Newsweek Shot in Brooklyn in 12 days on a $38,000 budget, this flawlessly acted movie about two dead-end thieves owes an obvious debt to Mean Streets, yet it finds an urgent, hyperreal style all its own. Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Rated: 4.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The point with Laws of Gravity, no matter what it cost, is that the screenplay and the acting do such an accurate job of achieving the movie's goals. Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com One of the freshest indies of the 1990s, Laws of Gravity offers an ultra-realistic depiction of terrifying nihilism Rated: A- Jun 2, 2011 Full Review Irish Times Rated: 4/5 Jul 17, 2009 Full Review Josh Ralske All Movie Guide ...A sustained level of tension that few street dramas can match. Rated: 7/10 Oct 26, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Tragedy follows a Brooklyn hoodlum (Peter Greene), his wife (Edie Falco) and his attempt to bail out his violent buddy (Adam Trese).
      Director
      Nick Gomez
      Screenwriter
      Nick Gomez
      Production Co
      Island World, Shooting Gallery, Jaguar Productions (II)
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 17, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $8.2K