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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Chris Cooper, Bill Raymond, Anjan Dutta, John Sayles, Vincent Spano, Angela Bassett, David Strathairn, Barbara Williams, Gloria Foster, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco, Gina Gershon

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Ensemble Film, Social Problem Film, Political Drama, Indie

City of Hope (1991) is an American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film features Vincent Spano, Stephen Mendillo and Chris Cooper. The film tells the story of Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), who has spent his life in one New Jersey city, getting a free ride from his well-connected father (Tony LoBianco) and hearing the locals talk of his brother's death in Vietnam. He's usually high on drink and drugs. As Rinaldi searches for more self control, he quits the contractor's job provided by his father, feeling that major events are about to happen in his life. By the film's... MORE

City of Hope (1991) is an American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film features Vincent Spano, Stephen Mendillo and Chris Cooper. The film tells the story of Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), who has spent his life in one New Jersey city, getting a free ride from his well-connected father (Tony LoBianco) and hearing the locals talk of his brother's death in Vietnam. He's usually high on drink and drugs. As Rinaldi searches for more self control, he quits the contractor's job provided by his father, feeling that major events are about to happen in his life. By the film's end his life will change, as will the lives of many others. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "City of Hope is a powerful film, and an angry one. It is impossible not to find echoes of its despair on the front pages every day. It asks a hard question: Is it possible for a good person to prevail in a corrupt system, just simply because right is on his side? The answer, in the short run, is that power is stronger than right. The notion of a long run, of course, is all that keeps hope alive." The staff at Variety magazine wrote, "John Sayles' ambitious, wide-ranging study of corruption and community in a LESS