He has been a columnist for the philadelphia daily news and the sacramento bee, and has contributed to many magazines, including esquire, sports illustrated, and playboy. Mary is a lonely and gloomy eightyearold girl who lives with her alcoholic mother, her factory working father and a pet rooster, in the suburbs of melbourne, australia and max is a fortyfouryear old, severely obese man. The residents of gods pocket wear illfitting beige suits and drive the kind of roomy cars in which velour interior comes standard. Even in a disappointing film like john slatterys gods pocket, hoffman makes unique, personal, realistic choices that other actors wouldnt have considered. Philip seymour hoffman, christina hendricks, glenn fleshler, caleb landry jones, john turturro plot.
Dramas gods pocket seems to be an ordinary working class neighbourhood at face value. The last film, of the late, great, john wayne, was the shootist 1976. Set in the gritty bluecollar neighborhood of god s pocket, a man s crazy stepson is killed in a construction accident and the man quickly. John slattery s feature directorial debut, an adaptation of pete dexter s first novel, god s pocket stars philip seymour hoffman as mickey scarpato, who lives in the gritty, bluecollar neighborhood of god s pocket with his wife jeanie christina hendricks, a lifelong resident of the pocket, and his stepson leon caleb landry jones. Directed by john slattery and starring philip seymour hoffman, christina hendricks, glenn fleshler and caleb landry jones. It s the first time ive sat through a screening with an audience in a long time, hoffman says. Mad men star john slattery makes his directorial debut with a brash, black comedy about a bluecollar neighbourhood. Slattery cowrote the screenplay with alex metcalf, based. Get god s pocket dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. It has several narrators, each more compulsive than the last and their stories are interwoven against the background of downtown philadelphia, in the suburb called god s pocket. In the gritty, bluecollar neighborhood of gods pocket, mickey scarpatos philip seymour hoffman crazy stepson, leon.
Gods pocket is john slatterys directorial debut the new. Released may 9th, 2014, god s pocket stars philip seymour hoffman, richard jenkins, christina hendricks, john turturro the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 28 min, and received a score of 51. May 09, 2014 with a screenplay adapted by john slattery and alex metcalf from a 1983 novel by pete dexter, and a starfilled cast led by philip seymour hoffman, gods pocket is the first feature film. Gods pocket is horrifying, humanist and heartbreaking. May 09, 2014 in gods pocket, theres a mad man behind the camera john slattery stepped away from mad men for his directorial debut, gods pocket, a film adapted from a 1980s novel.
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It was the first major deal of the 2014 sundance film festival and tonight whiplash was the big winner at the fests awards ceremony. It has several narrators, each more compulsive than the last and their stories are interwoven against the background of downtown philadelphia, in the suburb called gods pocket. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boys mother demands the. Gods pocket 2014 dvdrip 720p88 min drama 9 may 2014 usa6,7your rating. May 09, 2014 many people will find gods pocket depressing, but once you get past the despair and carnage its full of life. Hiding things in the small town of god s pocket is no easy. God s pocket on dvd september 9, 2014 starring philip seymour hoffman, richard jenkins, christina hendricks, john turturro. God s pocket 2014 is an all american movie, that takes place in a small american town and is full of awkward, borderline criminalshustlers, characters. Overview when mickey accidentally causes his stepsons death at a construction site, he decides to hide it. God s pocket 2014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Before the devil knows youre dead 2007, burn after reading 2008, the savages 2007. The actor watched gods pocket with the premiere audience friday night. Leon hubbard, 24, a sullen creep with a straightrazor fetish, has gotten a construction jobthanks to his doting mother jeanie and his newish.
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The film premiered at the 2014 sundance film festival to mixed critical. Gods pocket forgot to make its characters have any redeeming qualities. Mt may 16, 2014 philip seymour hoffman left and eddie marsan, in a scene from the film, gods pocket. May 15, 2014 the residents of gods pocket wear illfitting beige suits and drive the kind of roomy cars in which velour interior comes standard. Gods pocket 2014 where to watch it streaming online reelgood. Pete dexter is the author of the national book awardwinning novel paris trout and five other novels. In one of his last film roles, philip seymour hoffman stars as hapless mickey scarpato. Gods pocket on dvd september 9, 2014 starring philip seymour hoffman, richard jenkins, christina hendricks, john turturro.
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Gods pocket, deadwood, brotherly love, the paperboy, and train. Mt may 16, 2014 philip seymour hoffman left and eddie marsan, in a. Many people will find gods pocket depressing, but once you get past the despair and carnage its full of life. Trailer for gods pocket based on the novel by national book award winning author pete dexter. The film stars philip seymour hoffman, john turturro, christina hendricks, and richard jenkins. When mickey s crazy stepson leon is killed in a construction accident, nobody in the working class neighborhood of god s pocket is sorry he. Gods pocket is a workingclass philadelphia neighborhoodand this strong, vivid, uneven first novel follows a sad handful of its denizens plus one even sadder outsider through the bleak, blackcomic aftermath of a lowkey murder. Gods pocket movie clip meat 2014 phillip seymour hofman, christina hendricks movie hd. Paper trails, published in 2007, is a compilation of columns he wrote for the philadelphia daily news and the sacramento bee from the 1970s to the 1990s. Starring philip seymour hoffman, christina hendricks, richard jenkins, john turturro and eddie marsan. Hiding things in the small town of gods pocket is no easy matter and mickey soon discovers just how hard it really is.
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