Just the Ticket
Gary Starke can get his hands on just about anything: floor level seats at a Knick's game, entrance to an exclusive art gallery or first-row concert tickets. But the one thing that Gary can't seem to get is the girl of his dreams.
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Personal lives, in chaos. of the US's newcomers set in NYC - Porkchop
JUST THE TICKET, is definitely not a waste of cash as a movie
rental, although it's debatable whether the audience will enjoy
being taken on the highs and lows that this story tells, of a
ticket scalper (black market ticket reseller.) It does work
well, as a rental.
The story is a homage in part, to the illegal alien population
of the USA that numbers in the 10 to 20 million, who have no ID
papers, having been born outside the country or in
circumstances that didn't allow them to get papers. As such,
they have to hustle in jobs offering little or no job security,
such as reselling services on the streets, in a cat and mouse
game with law enforcement, and this affects their personal
lives, that often are in chaos.
Starring Andy Garcia, who is present in almost every frame of
this film, and bears a tremendous responsibility in carrying the
film's entertainment value, and Andie MacDowell who plays the
undecided girlfriend (but who is not to be underestimated as an
actress) the picture entertains from beginning to end, with some
tasteful music and interesting shots of NYC streets.
It also brings to light some aspects of mid-life crisis that
some humans feel, when they realize they haven't met all their
life dreams, goals and aspirations that they had set for
themselves in a prescribed period of time.
It also tells of the struggle, commercially, that merchants and
hustlers face from new competitors, who on occasion manage to
pay bribes to certain urban police officers to cover their
protection rackets and black market operations to get the upper
hand. A 2.5 for this movie, almost a 3, considering many will
find it too depressing for the theater or to be watched more
than once.
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Personal lives, in chaos. of the US's newcomers set in NYC - Porkchop
JUST THE TICKET, is definitely not a waste of cash as a movie
rental, although it's debatable whether the audience will enjoy
being taken on the highs and lows that this story tells, of a
ticket scalper (black market ticket reseller.) It does work
well, ...