Steel City (2006)

Steel City (2006). Steel City: Directed by Brian Jun. With Jamie Anne Allman, Marcus Atkins, Raymond J. Barry, Kristian Best. During a Midwestern winter, two working-class brothers must cope with their recently incarcerated father.

“After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee (John Heard) where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ (Thomas Guiry), who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his fatheru0026#39;s house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house. His older brother Ben (Clayne Crawford) is a harder worker in a mill with a little daughter and cheats his wife with a bartender. Ben has open wounds in his relationship with his father and does not visit him in the jail. Carlu0026#39;s brother Vic Lee (Raymond J. Barry) helps PJ bringing him home but demanding discipline and respect. PJu0026#39;s mother has just left her husband and is living with a policeman. On Christmas, the remorseful Carl forces PJ to keep an overwhelming secret that bonds them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Steel Cityu0026quot; is a low-budget movie that seems to be a very personal family drama, supported by magnificent performances and solid, simple and credible screenplay about people not well succeeded – losers indeed. A father with remorse for leaving his family has a second chance to redeem himself in behalf of his young son and he sacrifices his freedom to compensate his absence in his childhood and adolescence. Therefore this is a beautiful tale of redemption but never being corny or commercial. On the contrary, most of the characters are not nice, and I dare to say that they are unpleasant with their rude behaviors. Nevertheless u0026quot;Steel Cityu0026quot; is a worthy movie. My vote is seven.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTitle (Brazil): u0026quot;Atrás das Gradesu0026quot; (u0026quot;Behind Barsu0026quot;)”