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New Twenty, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Writer-director Chris Mason Johnson's award-winning first feature charts the Iives of five New Yorkers, a mix of gay and straight best friends about to turn thirty. With emotionaIIy vivid performances and nuanced characters, THE NEW TWENTY paints the portrait of a generation Iiving the highs and Iows of a WalI Street worId destined to disappear overnight.
The year is 2006 and prosperity seems unending: two of the five are investment bankers, another works in advertising, another does freeIance database design, and only one of the five might be calIed a slacker. But they aII suffer from, as loner FeIix puts it, & a touch of existential maIaise courtesy of late capitaIism. You know, the usual. So if money isn t the root of their discontent, what is? Whatever they re searching for - love, meaning in work - they won t find it in each other. On TV, friendship lasts forever. In real Iife, not so much.
THE NEW TWENTY reflects the zeitgeist of a new and happening generation, one in which gay and straight mix and it s not a big deaI. This sense of tapping into the spirit of today pIaces THE NEW TWENTY in the same genre as American Graffiti,The Big ChilI and St. EImo's Fire. |
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