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Bookmark this pageGrind (1996)
Director: Chris Kentis
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From Time Out Film Guide
The filmic equivalent of a Springsteen song: Eddie (Crudup) returns to his industrial home town and moves in with his brother and his bored, brow-beaten wife, Janey. Eddie goes to work as a machinist, but switches to night shifts so he can work on his hotrod by day. It sounds grindingly predictable (and it doesn't disappoint), but this is a subtler, more emotionally honest film than most American indies are concerned to come up with. It doesn't look like much, but the cutting's sharp, and the three principals turn in carefully nuanced performances. It's easy to see why everyone's getting excited about Crudup - but don't write off Kentis either. In its own quiet, cumulative way this is an impressive, authoritative debut.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Chris Kentis
Producer: Laura Lau, Melissa Powell
Cast: Adrienne Shelly, Billy Crudup, Paul Schulze, Frank Vincent, Saul Stein, Jenny Dundas full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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