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Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel, one of the few remaining affordable refuges for the destitute and out of luck, a world that has seemingly stood still for more than eight decades. Here the hotel residents live in tiny four-by-six-foot cubicles crowned by a ceiling of chicken wire. Focusing on several of the Sunshine’s denizens – including a transgender woman saving all her money for additional surgeries and a hotel manager who doubles as its resident philosopher – Dominic presents a non-judgmental snapshot of a diverse group of characters as memorable as the characters at Harry Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”

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Release : 2001
Rating : 7.4
Studio : Broadway Bill Productions, 
Crew : Additional Music,  Cinematography, 
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Genre : Documentary

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Reviews

Cubussoli
2018/08/30

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Solemplex
2018/08/30

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Stevecorp
2018/08/30

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Zandra
2018/08/30

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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lifesoboring
2018/08/10

Nathan Smith makes this movie. I love his vocabulary and the way he talks.

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blumdeluxe
2018/01/28

"Sunshine Hotel" tells the story of an old hotel building in New York City, where tiny rooms are being rented to people with minimal income and how they interact in an environment full of addiction, violence and broken dreams.This film is another great example how different circumstances can lead into a downwards spirale that is ultimately hard to escape. It shows that poverty has in some cases nothing to do with the abilities or the personality of a person and invites the viewers to be more open-minded and tolerant towards people left behind by the society. At the same time it adds to the picture of the city and lifts the curtain to a world that most likely will be new to most viewers. At some points it can be hard for someone who isn't a native english speaker to understand everything, but apart from that there is much to explore.All in all this is a well-made documentary with a very interesting topic that tells some of the stories of the city that we tend to forget about most of the time.

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Leofish
2002/11/13

What an incredible film, especially for a documentary. This reflection on a seemingly hopeless flophouse and the worn-out, tired men who live in it is stunning in the stark reality it gives the viewer, and the poor residents it reveals are truly fascinating people. They are people who anyone can relate to, who had a dream that didn't quite come to fruition, who had a terrible experience with prejudice or lost love, people who seem like they've had the deck stacked against them from the start. This movie is essential for a viewer who wants to see a movie about the lost dreams of an American city and American lives. It's tracing of the infamous Bowery neighborhood from it's glory days to it's present depressed melancholy environment show a changing America, but an America that has always had nothing but contempt for the losers in life. This film shows how those "losers" deserve sympathy from those less blessed in life--everyone knows someone like them, someone who just didn't get any breaks. There are some truly haunting shots, from a post-September 11th perspective, that show the World Trade Center buildings towering over the bleak city street on which the flophouse resides, but the real lesson in this movie is how our system ruins the lives of good people, like the elderly black Army veteran recounting his terrifying experience in the Jim Crow South during the 1950s, or the charming man who recounts his hopelessness and lack of confidence with women in a frank, honest manner that would have brought a less hardened man to tears. This film is sad and beautiful and unsparing in its truth, and it is an extraordinary movie.

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wwf_owner_86_2000
2001/12/14

I just saw this very interesting documentary and it kicked butt! It's full of amazing tidbits and elaborate scenery. What I enjoyed most is how they REALLY REALLY REALLY did an in-depth look at the Sunshine Hotel and it's many aspects. Thumbs Way Up and I gave this a perfect 10.

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