Hold Me Down

August. 16,2017      
Rating:
7.5
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Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub to support her child.

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Reviews

FeistyUpper
2017/08/16

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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ChanBot
2017/08/17

i must have seen a different film!!

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Console
2017/08/18

best movie i've ever seen.

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Hayden Kane
2017/08/19

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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sufiosman
2017/08/20

Director clearly concerned with the plight of women who live in extreme poverty in the US and who are forced into awful circumstances as a result. Relationship between Chastity and Prince speaks to the reduction of all relationships between "man and man" under capitalism to "naked self-interest... callous 'cash payment'" in a moving fashion. Reminds me of the relationship between Clyde and Roberta in 'An American Tragedy'. The film is, however, incredibly bleak, with no vision of an alternative (which one would have sensed had the director been able to really get to the root of the circumstances facing Chastity).

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