Take Out

 

Like his recent Prince of Broadway, Sean Baker's second film, co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou, is an exemplary tale in the neo-realist tradition of contemporary American independent cinema. The set-up is quite simple, as its structure: twenty-four hours in the life of Ming Ding, a Chinese food delivery boy who, desperate to pay off debts with his loaners, does all the deliveries of the day to try to raise eight hundred dollars before midnight. Throughout Manhattan, the rainy New York of Ming [...]

Duration

87 min

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