A well-crafted, slice-of-life saga which amply illustrates how easily matters might go from bad to worse in the already-overburdened inner-city when disaster strikes in the 'hood.
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04/14/08
Blackout (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 3
Fresh: 1
Rotten:2
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Synopsis: 2003's historic New York City blackout forms the premise for this drama set in Brooklyn's East Flatbush, where looters and violence emerged as soon as the lights went out.
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there are some terribly cliched threads, including C.J.'s as the doomed upwardly mobile kid from the block, and James as the tormented witness of 9/11
12/18/07
Hopes to attach some larger social significance to the event, but that unfortunately falls largely flat and suffers from a derivative and sometimes vapid script.
06/22/07
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