Brothers from the lower east side play hooky, for the last time. The film was created from a film started, but abandoned after a fire gutted the 5 story tenement building that housed the actors on the 2nd floor and the film studio of the fifth. The week before there was a murder of a tenant on the 4th floor. There was a sort of turf war between the hells angels who lived across the street and the film over an empty lot next door. A documentary film, "Making HOOKY" 1997, and book of Photographs, STREET SHOTS HOOKY, explains bette what happened. But in 2021 a beginning and ending was written and edited using other existing footage from the same time and place. Damaged film from the original production was digitally restored, which I never thought would be possible, and an entirely new narrative film created in 2022.
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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
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