Local Color -
A semi-autobiographical account of George Gallo's life as an impressionist painter during the summer of 1974.
Morgan has been cast as a young man trying to develop his art against the backdrop of an abusive home life. Liotta will play the father and Mueller-Stahl his mentor.
Movie information
| Release Date (USA): | TBA |
| Rating (USA): | NA |
| Release Date (UK): | TBA |
| Rating (UK) : | NA |
| Director: | George Gallo |
| Producer: | George Gallo, David Permut, Jimmy Evangelatos, Mark Sennet and Julie Lott |
| Studio: | N/A |
| Writer/s: | George Gallo |
Cast
| Ray Liotta | |
| Trevor Morgan | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | |
| Ron Perlman | |
| Charles Durning | |
| Diana Scarwid |
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Talkback
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It is so sad when someone like Calvin focuses on what he determines to be a negative. The film was based on a true story an if he was at one of the many screenings the Director George spoke at then he would have had a clear understanding of why Armin Muller Stahl's character cursed...George simply depicted him as he actually was in real life a drunk who cursed alot but also had unbelievable lines of wisdom.
My point is if you are to make a movie based on a true story you should keep it true to life.
The whole German thing I just don't understand at all.
I can tell anyone who has a chance to see Local Color will walk out of there with tears and a smile and that just does not happen with movies anymore. The story is a shared experience.
I don't believe the main character's mother was rooting for the Nazis, she was secretly rooting for her people; family and friends from her native country. We often oppose the decisions and actions of our leaders, but that doesn't mean we stop loving our country.
I very much enjoyed this movie. It made me laugh unlike many of the movies out there that are supposed to be funny.
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CalvinOct 15th, 2007 - 16:50:27
I enjoyed the movie very much, emotionally, intellectually, and visually. It contains no violence or sex or drugs or special effects, and doesn't need them one bit, holding my attention the entire time with the visuals, story, and interspersed words of wisdom.
However: [1] some of the foreign language accents made the dialog difficult to hear & understand; [2] there is unnecessary overuse of swearing (especially the F-word, which is the only reason this movie was rated R). [3] The movie is balanced with humor and emotion, but most of the emotion that holds you throughout the film, except the final resolution last minutes, is unpleasant due to the exaggerated long-lasting dysfunctional reaction of some of the characters to loss, living in the depths of bitterness and depression for too long. [4] I will not recommend this movie because of 5-seconds of background narration, which did not add one bit to the side-character it applied to, or the film -- it only turned me off to the movie and stuck in my brain through the whole movie and afterward: the main character's mother of German ancestry, when watching old WWII movies, 'secretly roots for the Germans.' There would be no 'local color' or art if the Nazi's won the war. I don't know of any Germans today except radical skinheads who think the world would be a better place if the Nazi's won WWII.
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