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Rhythm Thief is a 1994 low budget independent feature film made in New York City’s Lower East Side that was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “Inventive, exciting, original” by director Martin Scorsese. Director Matthew Harrison's second feature film, the standard 16mm black-and-white feature was made for $36,000 US.〔Aaron Krach, "By The Numbers", ''(Film & Video Independent )'', August/September, 1998〕 When his first feature film ''Spare Me'' won the Kodak Prix Tournage at the Avignon Film Festival, Harrison used the prize to complete ''Rhythm Thief''. The film won top awards at SXSW, New Orleans Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, was released theatrically in the US and Europe, and is available on the Internet and DVD. ==Plot== Jason Andrews (''Last Exit to Brooklyn'') is Simon, a downwardly mobile urban white-guy who hustles a living selling audio cassette bootleg music on the streets of New York City’s Lower East Side. Simon lives in a tenement walk-up where everyone calls him “Whitey”. Ludlow Street chick Cyd (Kimberly Flynn), who has a real job, visits Simon for sex weekday mornings. Simon's bootleg-wannabe sidekick Fuller (Kevin Corrigan, ''The Departed'') has innocent romantic fantasies about Cyd. Enter Cynthia Sley (Bush Tetras) of 1-900 BOXX (an all-girl militant punk band) who, having learned Simon is selling her music, pays a violent visit with her thugs. They beat up Simon and smash his gear. Further complicating Simon's life, a girl from his past Marty (Eddie Daniels, ''Bad Lieutenant''), shows up with her suitcase to announce Simon’s mom has died. So he can tape a 1-900 BOXX gig, Simon borrows money from Mr. Bunch, his middle-aged mentor. The band comes after him, beats Fuller, and hounds Simon out of the city with Marty in tow. Simon and Marty hightail it to Queens on the subway, ending in Far Rockaway where Marty confesses her love to Simon and they spend a romantic night under the boardwalk at 105th St. But there is no escape for Simon; he is drawn inexorably back to the neighborhood for a final electrifying reckoning with fate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhythm Thief」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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