Cost of a Soul

Name: Cost of a Soul
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: May 20, 2011
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 30

2011

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Relativity Media | Release Date: May 20, 2011 | R

Summary: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. While DDWounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. While DD struggles to make an honest living, his older brother, Darnell, has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin. DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from following in Darnell’s dangerous footsteps. Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same slum they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence. (Studio: Relativity Media)… Expand

Director: Sean Kirkpatrick

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Carrie Rickey

May 19, 2011

If Martin Scorsese updated "The Roaring Twenties," the classic Jimmy Cagney movie about World War I vets who come home and find that the only jobs available are with gang lords and bootleggers, it would look a lot like Sean Kirkpatrick's rookie feature, Cost of a Soul. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

May 17, 2011

While Kirkpatrick does a fine job in establishing a gritty inner-city milieu and a collection of more than credible street characters caught up in an endless cycle of crime and violence, his body count reaches the proportions of the worst sort of studio schlock. Going for a shock effect, he instead strains credulity and risks unintended laughs. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

May 20, 2011

Though it's rough around the edges, it is also, undeniably, a nervy, confident debut. Read full review

Nick Schager

May 17, 2011

Kirkpatrick's color-deficient visual scheme is sturdy, but it can't compensate for a mechanical, unsubtle script. Read full review

John Anderson

May 24, 2011

As is, the emotional elements explored by Cost of a Soul, and the devices it employs, seem trite and occasionally shoplifted from better-told tales. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

May 19, 2011

As one bloody encounter treads on the heels of the next, all that remains is a tiny indie undone by its own vicious ambitions. Read full review

Kyle Smith

May 20, 2011

Rookie director Sean Kirkpatrick keeps stomping on the drama pedal while blowing the cliché horn, yielding scene after tired scene of predictable developments as the principals keep shoving guns into mouths and screaming obscenities. Read full review

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Jumpinjohn

May 24, 2011

I think most of these critics were smokin something, because the sold out theatre I went to; the audience (REAL PEOPLE) loved it. Jumpinjohn from Philly.

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