Synopsis
A lush meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city, Alfredo de Villa's adrift in Manhattan is the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes.
Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help--something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence.
With raw, exacting performances by a top-notch cast, Adrift in Manhattan wields fertile metaphors and a sophisticated sense of psychology to penetrate the subtle process of human transformation and the possibilities for meaningful interchange lying dormant in contemporary urban life.
About Screen Media
Screen Media Films acquires the rights to high quality, independent feature films for the US and Canada. These films are distributed on home video through an exclusive distribution arrangement with Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Since 2001, the company has released more than 100 titles including, Noel, starring Penelope Cruz and Susan Sarandon and Sherrybaby, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Bacon's directorial debut, Loverboy, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Matt Dillon and Steven Woolley's, Stoned. Upcoming films include Myth with Jackie Chan, Bickford Schemeckler's Cool Ideas with Olivia Wilde, and I Witness with James Spader. Screen Media Films, LLC is a wholly owned division of Screen Media Ventures. With a library of over 1000 motion pictures, Screen Media Ventures is one of the largest independent suppliers of high quality motion pictures to U.S. and international broadcast markets, cable networks, home video outlets and new media venues.
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