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The Low Life (Director's Cut) [HD DVD] Reviews:
Mr. Astin at his BEST!
2003-07-02 - I knew that Andrew wouldn't make it. I knew it from his first on screen smile. It was ten minutes into the movie, and everything was in shadow, gritty and sandy and sad, until Andrew smiled. That lit a little candle that guttered and sputtered in the corner of the screen, even when he wasn't gracing it. Gracing - grace- yes, that's the perfect word, for in the dim world of this film, Sean Astin's Andrew is grace. Not the physical grace that sways and flows like water in the eye. It is the grace of redemption, the one tiny light in a world that knows only shadows.

Why hasn't someone given this man an Oscar? What could they all be thinking?

under rated..and not in the PG to R to NC 17 way...
2000-11-15 - wow. i'm really dissappointed that this movie isn't available on DVD or VHS. I was hoping to snag it on DVD...it's a real letdown in that this movie slipped through the cracks in its not being credited as a great indie film, which it is... this film is a classic example of small fish trying to get by in a big nasty pond...the characters interaction with one another is poignant and very "real". who hasn't known a person in their life whose "niceness" is a bit too much? but you regret the way you've blown them off...

when (i hope) it becomes available on DVD or VHS, i recommend any indie film buff to snatch it up...this movie was swingers before swingers minus the glitz and a hefty dash of artist driven frustration wrapped up in sublime emotion.

LOW LIFE CAPTURES THE ANGST OF TWENTY-SOMETHINGS
2000-01-14 - Like a young man's version of DAY OF THE LOCUST, Hickenlooper's THE LOW LIFE beautifully captures the loneliness of jaded youths trying to make their way in the Darwinian world of Los Angeles. A beautiful award winning performance by Sean Astin makes this film emotionally powerful on the MIDNIGHT COWBOY level... A true classic movie!