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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Screen Media
Salesrank: 57992
Released: January 22, 2008 |
| Our Price: $5.20 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From award-winning director Alfredo De Villa comes a moving and heart wrenching film centering on a beautiful and mysterious doctor (Heather Graham), a young photographer (Victor Rasuk) who becomes infatuated with her, and her patient (Dominic Chianese), a painter going blind. A sexy and suspenseful ride through the city - Adrift in Manhattan is an intricately woven, award-winning film that critics have been raving about!
Adrift in Manhattan Reviews:
A little disappointing. 
2009-02-05 - Was a little disappointed with this movie. It was just so-so, dragged on mostly. Heather was interesting but nothing like her other films.
Amazing and Insightful 
2008-09-26 - This film directed by Alfredo De Villa is an intense emotional journey told through the lives of three main characters whose lives intertwine. I found this film very real, emotionally stimulating and totally thought provoking. From the beginning I was caught up and the experience was a honest, heart wrenching experience.
All the acting here is superb. Heather Graham leads the cast in an amazing performance as a very mysterious eye doctor. Add in Victor Rasuk in a career making performance as a 20 year old photographer who becomes obsessed with her and Dominic Chianese as one of her patients who is also excellent. All the characters here are shown very realistically and their lives are troubled and multi layered. The script as well as the directing desrve high credit here. We become involved and totally invested in these peoples lives. They are introduced vaguely and as the film progresses we discover all about their lives and the complexities of the issues they are all dealing with.
This was truly one of the best films I have seen in a long time. It is very intelligent and the way all the characters lives become entwined is very believable. This film was an emotional journey I will not soon forget. ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN does not manipulate the emotions of the viewer but rather tells the stories openly and honestly and allows the viewer to feel their own emotions.
I truly don't understand the low ratings here. I highly praise this film and also highly recommend it. Give yourself the treat of a film that will treat you the viewer with intelligence and provide a truly emotional and thought provoking journey.
Adrift in Manhattan 
2008-09-05 - Good movie with good storyline. Easy to follow. Good acting, well cast. Good pause and toss scenes.
Disappointing 
2008-06-22 - This is one of those movies that sound like a very good idea but don't really work. The screenplay is a little weak, the relationship between Simon and his mother is downright creepy (for no apparent reason), and unfortunately Heather Graham is not good enough an actress to pull off the grieving-mother part.
An OK Movie
2008-02-18 - A pleasant movie but nothing special . An Ok way to spend a couple of hours . Acting was fine but plot dragged.
