Union Square

Name: Union Square
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 28, 2004
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 51

2004

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Alliance International Pictures | Release Date: May 28, 2004 | R

Summary: A powerful look into the world of homeless heroin addicts that live in Union Square Park in New York City. (Alliance International Pictures)

Director: Stephen Szklarski

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Phil Hall

A raw, brutal, hypnotic journey into the world of seven heroin addicts who barely survive on the streets of New York City. It is a film of great sadness and pain. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

It's depressing as hell. While most of the seven say they want to beat the habit and become productive citizens, only one, Ron, follows through successfully. Read full review

David Sterritt

The material is vivid and harrowing, although the movie provides little analysis or larger-scale context. Read full review

John Patterson

Without a well-delineated political or social framework, Union Square offers little that we didn't already know. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

A moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Like its seven subjects, it can't see past the immediate demands of addiction, and the film becomes a seemingly endless string of scenes depicting shooting up, nodding out and waiting around for the next fix. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Far more troubling than the documentary's lack of data and analysis, its refusal to pose even basic questions -- whether, for instance, the so-called war on drugs is a total farce -- is the sense that these seven lost souls are principally on display for our viewing displeasure. Read full review

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