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Gods Pocket
Mickey Scarpato is a crime, but his nature is not evil. Just because he loves his wife, Mickey Scarpato determines to earn more money by all means. Until one day the police discover a purposeful assassination at a construction site that all suspicions are aimed at Mickey Scarpato…
24 February 1979, Long Island, New York, USA
7 February 1958, Everett, Washington, USA
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 September 1952, New York City, New York, USA
5 January 1944, Paris, Texas, USA
19 March 1986, Staten Island, New York, USA
7 December 1989, Garland, Texas, USA
4 May 1947, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
25 March 1976, Bronx, New York, USA
3 May 1975, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
April 07, 2016
God's Pocket reveals Slattery as a capable director who can provide a generous playground for his actors, but his expressive ways need tempering. [Full Review in Spanish]
September 27, 2014
God's Pocket is strange one, but a strange one that I can't stop thinking about.
October 10, 2014
The colour balance, locations, set designs and dialogue have an authenticity we rarely see in bigger budget movies and the characters are, well, characters.
June 21, 2016
It's place full of colorful characters but lacking in a particularly interesting tale to tell, or a particularly interesting way to tell it.
January 09, 2015
Its crazed whirlwind of tones suddenly made perfect sense once the location is established. If you're from Philly, you'll get it.
May 15, 2014
What's left is an awkward blend of tragedy and comedy, in a movie that doesn't feel as if it has earned the right to be either.
June 18, 2016
Slattery shows real promise as a director, guiding his actors with ease and effectively evoking a very specific time and place.
May 22, 2014
A dud.
May 15, 2014
A fair amount of the film leaves you wondering about the categorizations it's courted as a dark comedy. If the tag legitimately applies, then it takes Slattery a while to find his footing, if he ever really does.
May 15, 2014
What began as an intriguing snapshot begins to feel grotesque and inscrutable.
May 16, 2014
A messy, shallow, muddled morass of a Philadelphia crime story set in 1978 ...
May 16, 2014
Turns out accents and attitude only go so far.
