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Sidewalks of New York (Widescreen)

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I loved this movie! I've watched it over and over again! and now that I am going to buy the DVD, I'm going to watch it some more! it just reflects alot of real life situations...and some of them you simply relate to...

Edward Burns has made a very good film of the romantic comedy genre, about the complex lives of six New Yorker's whose lives intersect at some point during the movie. Filmed in a documentary style, one can't help but feel the spontaneity and good acting of the cast, made more intimate by the ambient New York setting. What I liked about the movie was the realism it depicted, and the vulnerablities and fears playing on the lives of people in relationships. This is the first movie of Edward Burns I have seen and I can't wait to see his other works of art. If you want to know more about relationships and the human condition, watch this film. Highly recommended.

If it wasn't clear before, it is now: Edward Burns is one of the best writer-director-actors to come along in a long time. Somewhat like Woody Allen, (a writer/director/actor who makes most of his films in New York)although Burns' films ring truer, and are in my opinion funnier.

"Sidewalks" is, like his other films, an honest look at everyday people and this thing we call love. The film is humourous, touching, and insightful. Although, since the movie is shot in documentary style, it makes it seem even more like a slice of life. With on-street interviews, jarring camera work and jump-cuts, the movie has the look of a PBS piece. But that's a good thing.

The supporting cast is excellent, Rosario Dawson, Dennis Farina, Krumholz, Brittany Murphy (quite a lot of names for a small film) all nail their parts.

This film is a must-see for fans of Burns and just fans of good movies.

okay let me start by saying i'm a huge Brittany Murphy fan and this has to be one of her best movies besides spun. I'm very impressed with many romantic comedies but i liked this so much that it's taken over the space where unconditional love used to sit.

OK, so Woody Allen doesn't own a monopoly on Manhatten comedy dramas. I liked this film very much. I was sympathetic for the characters and felt very involved in their lives. The TV documentary angle may have been unecessary but certainly didn't hamper the film's narrative. Like an Allen film with somewhat tiny-er characters, it doesn't ape or pay homage to Woody, but remains an individual and entertaining voice and a very nice stroll through Manhatten.

Overdrawn conversations and inter-twined relationships in Manhattan. Can't get any more Woody Allen than that. Yet there is so much wrong with this movie that makes it an ersatz, charmless clone of Allen's films.

The cinematography is (perhaps purposefully) scattershot, cutting abruptly between long scenes. This doesn't really make for the stylization that the directors were apparently going for, it just comes off as epileptic camerawork.

Then there is slobby vulgarity including adoloscent malarkey about applying cologne to your pubic areas or forgetting to shower before dates. There is an annoyingly prolonged shot of Ed Burns' armpits.

What really gets your goat after a while though is the endless chitter chatter that lacks any semplance of sense or wit.

While the movie does have its moments, an occasion or two where you may even laugh out loud, overall it is a disappointing waste of film. Can be skipped unless this is the only choice you have.

A surprisingly good film which did not receive much advertisement. I gained a new respect for two actresses that I did not care for: Heather Graham and Brittany Murphy. This movie has a high level of believability. There was not a weak link in this chain of actors. David Krummholtz is adorable, as is Ed Burns. Stanley Tucci is incredibly good. I am not one to watch movies over and over again, but I have seen this one three times already.

I thought this was a well thought off movie, with a nice storyline, nice acting and nice dialogues.
It is a very realistic today's story...

The funny thing about this film is, although it is about all sorts of permutations ofd how human wreck their relationships (married man cheating on spouse, young waitress having affair with married man, young divorcee regretting breaking up marrieage), it isn't sad! It is actually upbeat and comedic.

The cast is great -- Ed Burns, Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy, Heather Graham, etc. The funniest is David Krumholtz as Ben, divorced from Maria, but always dropping by because he "was in the neighborhood". ("You live 3 blocks away!" she yells. "You're always in the neighborhood!") Most scuzzy is Stanley Tucci as Griffin, cheating on Annie, his second wife, with Ashley, a waitress whom he never takes out in public. When Ashley won't see him anymore, he says he'll tell his wife, then curses her for breaking up his marriage. NOTHING is his fault!

This film just tells us how it is or could be -- not every broken marriage results in unhappiness, not ever dalliance brings joy. It just depends on the people and the situation.

Ed Burns captures New York life and the relationships with such humor and sadness. One minute I was laughing , the next I was crying.

Great writing.....all I can say now is I want to see more movies like this.