City of Men: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

Sundance | Sundance Channel | Season Premiere Date: April 4, 2006

Starring: Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva

Summary: This new series utilizes the actors and locale of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God, but is set in the present day and follows new characters, centering on a pair of 13-year-old boys living in the slums of Rio De Janeiro.

Genre(s): Drama

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E4. Uólace and João Vitor
Air Date: unknown
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S1:E4. Uolace and Joao Victor
Air Date: October 18, 2002
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S1:E3. The Post
Air Date: unknown

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Tim Goodman

"City of Men" pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie. Read full review

Dalton Ross

Those unfamiliar with the film may find some scenes--like when the actors break character to tell their real-life stories--a bit jarring. [7 Apr 2006, p.54]

Troy Patterson

It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce. Read full review

Heather Havrilesky

Unlike anything else you've ever seen on TV. Read full review

Charles McGrath

The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in "The Wire" on HBO, and even they seem a little tame and stagey compared with what takes place in Dona Marta. Read full review

Marilyn Moss

The humorous moments are all the more precious because life is so tough in this engrossing series. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points. Read full review

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Athos

Jul 3, 2006

Really great