Our Flick of the Week is ”Salaam Bombay!,” a most ambitious docudrama of the plight of the street children of this Indian city.
We follow one 10-year-old boy who tries to make some money in the big city and is soon thrown in with the beggars and drifters, adopting a prostitute as a surrogate mother.
The film`s strength is that it is not always harsh; many of the supporting characters have their own dignity. It`s a film that is tragic and yet not without hope.
”Salaam Bombay!` is playing only at the Fine Arts Theater. Not rated.
(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2
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– THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA (McClurg Court and outlying). Keanu Reeves stars as a teenager who returns home for a family funeral and rekindles the anger that drove him away from home in the first place. The film is dreadfully predictable in that this young rebel breaks up his high-school prom, rails against his father and finds a measure of understanding with an outcast woman (Amy Madigan) who runs the local greasy spoon. There`s nothing here you haven`t seen before. R. (STAR) 1/2
– SALAAM BOMBAY! (Fine Arts). This week`s Flick of the Week. See above. Not rated. (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2
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