Overview
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
If this were a movie made as part of a college course, it would be considered excellent. But this is just a run-of-the-mill indie movie, and it isn’t very good. Bernadette Peters is the only reason that this is even remotely watchable, and even her sizable talents can’t save it from mediocrity. Some of the secondary actors….. yikes. But hey, we got to see future stars such as Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Slaves of New York
Movie title: Slaves of New York
Movie description: Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Date published: 2025-02-13
Director(s): James Ivory
Actor(s): Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Madeleine Potter, Adam Coleman Howard, Charles McCaughan, Mercedes Ruehl, Joe Leeway, Anna Katarina, Bruce Peter Young, Michael Schoeffling, Jonas Abry, Stephen Bastone, Denise Beaumont, Mark Boone Junior, Dianne Brill, Steve Buscemi, Michael Butler, Richie Cannata, Johann Carlo, Betty Comden, Jsu Garcia, Anthony Crivello, Raye Dowell, Christine Dunford, Stash Franklin, Kevin John Gee, Aaron Goodstone, Adam Green, Tammy Grimes, Louis Guss, Rich Hara, John Harkins, George Harris, Francine Hunter, Paul Jabara, Sakina Jaffrey, Tama Janowitz, Ken Kensei, Freddy Korner, Anthony LaPaglia, Kim Laresse, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Philip Lenkowsky, Maura Moynihan, Harsh Nayyar, Suzanne O'Neill, Lázaro Pérez, Dustin Pittman, Paul Potter, Paige Powell, Mark Robinson, Stillman Rockefeller, Richard Steinmetz, Michael David Tanney, Stanley Tucci, Julian Scott Urena, George Harris II, Charles Pendelton, Ismail Merchant, George Nemeh, Anthony Welch
Genre: Drama
My Review
If this were a movie made as part of a college course, it would be considered excellent. But this is just a run-of-the-mill indie movie, and it isn’t very good. Bernadette Peters is the only reason that this is even remotely watchable, and even her sizable talents can’t save it from mediocrity. Some of the secondary actors….. yikes. But hey, we got to see future stars such as Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci.