The Brother From Another Planet, another great, under-appreciated New York movie. The drug dealing subplot is a little heavy-handed but the two old guys in the bar bullshitting all day are priceless.
This preview is surprisingly cheesey and doesn't really do the movie justice but anyway..
This scene better captures the quirkiness.
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One of my favorites. Best line: (Delivered in the bar, by one of the old men to one of the younger patrons, who works for a social services agency) "You['re] the City, Sam. You help him."
Since the semi-gentrification of Harlem, I've always wanted to see whether all the white people still got off at Columbus Circle.
Rambler, you're starting to get paranoid about Harlem. Once it's had black, it won't go back.
Sometimes they don't (all get off at Columbus Circle). Sometimes the one white chick in the group of five white chicks, the one who had lived in NYC, thinks (and says in so many words), "No, there is another stop on this train before 125th Street, and so we stay" . . . and then you see her, sheparding her white (and blond, to boot) girlfriends onto the platform at 125th street, saying, "No, really, I know the way back downtown. We just have to cross the platform and take the local back to [our original destination]." The somewhat freaked out blonde white girlfriends oblige . . .but what choice do they have? To go aboveground and chance finding a cab?
Really, it happened. But maybe you had to be there.
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