Prince of Broadway
An indie drama about an NYC hustler playing babysitter is far from royal.
Lucky (Adu) struggles to make ends meet by hawking knockoff goods in midtown Manhattan. Then an ex-girlfriend dumps a kid on him; what’s a hustler to do? Director Sean Baker tries to do for those Herald Square sweet-talkers selling bootleg Prada what Ramin Bahrani did for coffee-cart jockeys in Man Push Cart, i.e., make these invisible New Yorkers seem hangdog heroic with every shaky handheld-camera shot. There’s one crucial lesson that Baker hasn’t absorbed, however: Don’t get too caught up in plotting, especially when it involves a man warming to an unwanted child.—Andrew Schenker
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August 23, 2010
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