Synopsis
Keith, a small-time drug dealer, is under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
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Cast
- McCaul LombardiKeith
- Jim BelushiCarol
- Tom GuiryAaron
- Zazie BeetzCourtney
- Marin IrelandKate
- Brieyon Bell-ElMarquis
- Everleigh BrennerJessie
- Lynn CohenLadybug
- Imani HakimCandace
- Kazy TauginasGary
Recommendations
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The Playlist
Sollers Point is an intimate and wise character study, not only of an unformed young man but also of a neighborhood struggling to preserve itself in the face of economic decline. - 90
The New York Times
Mr. Porterfield’s evenhanded direction doesn’t try to pull the viewer’s sympathies one way or another. Within his realistic mode he crafts some startling effects — a strip-club brawl that spills out into broad, embarrassing daylight is eye-opening. - 88
Slant Magazine
Sollers Point is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Sollers Point boasts a cool, classically observational tone marked by Sabier Kirchner’s invitingly elegant cinematography that eschews the vogue for artificial shaky-cam edginess, and the naturalistic detail of a lived-in neighborhood populated by at least a dozen instantly memorable characters — by turns stressed, satisfied, curious, weird and sad — just doing their thing. - 75
Washington Post
It transfixes, not with artifice or cheap sentiment, but with a strange alchemy of gloom and light. - 70
Village Voice
Keith’s sincerity and depth of feeling are embodied in Lombardi’s performance. - 67
The A.V. Club
Sollers Point is easy to admire, abstractly and on principle. But you may still leave wondering if a little melodrama, a little bullshit, might have been preferable. - 63
Movie Nation
Sollers Point isn’t really about the plot, or advancing it. It’s all about the place, the sorts of people in it and the good and bad support systems that could sink or swim our hero. Thanks to Lombardi, we stick around for the answer.
