Twisted (1996 film)
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Budget 150,000 USD Duration Country United States | 4.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Writer Seth Michael Donsky Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1997 Cast (Can Man, a homeless man), Keivyn McNeill Grayes (Lee, a homeless boy), Elise Ballard (Dumb Bitch), Sharlene Brown (Woman with Can), (Man Who Kills Can Man), (Eddie, a drug dealer)Similar movies Factory Girl , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things , The Last Days of Disco , The Last Witch Hunter , Jupiter Ascending , At the Edge of the Abyss Tagline "Oliver Twist" re-imagined with hustlers, addicts and drag queens. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Twisted is a film written and directed by Seth Michael Donsky. His debut film, it was released in 1997. The film, a Don Quixote and Miravista Films production, is a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist set in a New York City contemporary underground populated by drag queens, drug abusers and hustlers. The film was an official selection and debuted in 1997 at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also screened as an official selection at the Seattle International Film Festival. Donsky's film was made prior to Jacob Tierney's similar film Twist, starring American actor Nick Stahl.
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Donsky's Twisted was re-discovered by the Museum of Modern Art in 2013, included in their Charles Dickens bicentenary film series http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1339 and subsequently accepted into their permanent film collection.
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Synopsis
William Hickey stars as Andre, the lecherous brothel owner that trades in young men. Exploiting his young charges through paternalism and drugs, Andre sets his sights on Lee (Keivyn McNeil Graves), a ten-year-old, black, runaway orphan. Through Andre, Lee quickly becomes immersed in New York's sleazy underbelly of drug dealers and street hustlers. The boy's only hope for survival is the aspiring songwriter Angel (David Norona), himself a former hustler and drug dealer. Angel befriends Lee and rescues him from the wiles of Andre's cohort Fine Art (Jean Loup Wolfman), who attempts to profit on Lee's tender age. Eventually, Andre's petty empire is vanquished by Shiniqua (Billy Porter), a powerfully wise and glamorous drag queen whose fiercely maternal spirit is every bit the match for the depraved denizens of the brothel.
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Awards
The film was an official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York screened Twisted and granted the director an honorarium for his work
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