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101 min.
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Homer Hobbs (Tyson Beckford), home after two years in jail, returns to a town caught in the depths of the Great Depression where he is thrown together with four strangers, each struggling to survive: Benny, the street hustler eager to begin life anew in the sunshine of Florida; Clarence, a nobody who aches to be somebody; Gracie, the despairing owner of a boarding house; Lucy, whose past has caught up with her. Life is grim, but on Sunday nights, the men of the neighborhood piece together the finest attire their meager lives can muster to compete in an underground contest like no other. The nominal award is the five-dollar prize, but the real prize is the chance to feel like a king, just for an evening.
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Ok. Let me be just up front about this. I came to believe that there wasn't a single redeeming feature of the film and I stayed to just prove my endurance. Well, that is a bit overstated. However, its "best" and worst feature was the performance of Tyson Beckford. He is insanely, if not inhumanly, beautiful. However, I don't think he has a Depression Era cell in his body. He certainly was not able to perform convincingly as if he did. With him as the center of the film, it was if the rest of the cast was thrown off. I can not think of a single scene that clicked. The production design was unspecific to place and somewhat to time. The costume design was particularly off kilter. One of the women works at a sewing factory. However, she does not seem to have brought any skills home with her. Also, the title refers to a weekly contest where men basically have a fashion show, and the winner is the "king of the evening". The suits are not necessarily to be the finest of depression era menswear, however there was not a significant difference in costume. Also, as I would be told later, the concept of the contest was fictional, which makes the entire project unnecessarily quirky. I did not stay for the Q&A.
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