Synopsis
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
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Cast
- Ahmad RazviAhmad
- Leticia DoleraNoemi
- Charles Daniel SandovalMohammad
- Ali RezaManish
- Farooq 'Duke' MuhammadDuke
- Panicker UpendranNoori
- Arun LalFather-in-Law
- Razia MujahidMother-in-Law
- Hassan RazviAhmad's son
- Mustafa RazviPakistani Driver
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Filmed in less than three weeks, Man Push Cart is an exemplary work of independent filmmaking carried out on a shoestring. Mr. Razvi’s convincing performance is a muted portrait of desolation bordering on despair. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Man Push Cart, largely the work of newcomers and near-newcomers, is a remarkably disciplined, subtle film that avoids striking a "triumph of the human spirit" note or any other cliché. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
This modern slice of neorealism has been made with a skill, and humanity, that suggests Bahrani may have a "Bicycle Thief" in him yet. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Razvi, once a pushcart vendor himself, is particularly good; he brings a visceral poignancy to a character who comes to represent every desperate soul who ever tried to make it in the land of plenty. - 75
New York Post
A fascinating, sad, sometimes quite poetic window into a grueling way of life most of us know little about. - 75
The A.V. Club
Quietly heartbreaking. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A realistic drama about life's uncertainties. - 70
Slate
If one of the things movies are supposed to do is make you look anew at the world around you, you may never see your doughnut vendor in the same way again.
