City Rats
(2002)
Johnny's comments:
City Rats is an ensemble drama about a group of
people at what could be described as their lowest points. A man, whose
only relationship is with a phone sex operator (Susan Lynch), tests out
jumping from a building by dropping watermelons from the top of the
building. He spies a woman (Myanna Buring) about to jump from another
building, which stops her, to which they strike up a friendship. A lowlife
just out of jail is followed by a woman who turns out to be the mother of
the man he buried for someone else and she wants closure. A man takes his
gay spastic brother out to have his first sexual experience. Finally, an
artist is inspired by the bumping and grinding from the above apartment,
who turns out to be inhabited by the above phone sex operator, who is also
a prostitute who wears calipers, asks her to be his muse. She accepts, but
on one condition... Pretty depressing stuff with, of course, everyone
interrelated somehow, but not all that bad, hell even Danny Dyer tones
down the lad 'act' and proves he does have some ability. At least it's not
preachy, which these types of films seem to have a habit of being and
which I truly hate (I'm looking at you Crash).
Myanna Buring (Collage below)
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