Thu 17 Feb 2011
Hill Street Blues
Posted by Ethan under Film Review, NYC Film Critic
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Putty Hill
Written and Directed by Matt Porterfield
Starring Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor Jr., Dustin Ray
**1/2
Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill is an earnest attempt to do something different with the “kids aren’t all right†school of movies, which seek to depict the aimlessness and/or amorality of contemporary youth. It’s a genre that’s almost as old as Hollywood itself, growing out of such socially-conscious one-reelers as 1909’s A Drunkard’s Reformation and The Usurer’s Grip, which warned viewers against the evils of alcoholism and loan sharks respectively.
