Steel City Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Jun
Genres: Drama
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A young man struggles to hold his family together while keeping his own life on track in this independent drama. P.J. Lee (Thomas_Guiry) is a teenager growing up in a decaying industrial town in Illinois. Few kids have it easy where P.J.'s from, but he has it harder than most -- his parents split up several years ago, and P.J.'s father, Carl (John_Heard), is in jail on vehicular manslaughter charges he's not likely to shake. P.J.'s big brother, Ben (Clayne_Crawford), is married and has a life of his own, through his fondness for booze and other women suggests he's following the same sorry path as his dad. P.J.'s mother, Marianne (Laurie_Metcalf), is remarried to a police officer, Randall (James McDaniel), and they have little to offer him other than a chance to join the police academy. When P.J. loses his job as a busboy, he finds he can no longer pay the rent on his house, and has a falling out with his girlfriend, Amy (America_Ferrera), who works at the same diner. With nowhere else to go, P.J. moves in with his uncle Vic (Raymond_J._Barry), but he soon begins to buckle under Vic's "straighten up and fly right" attitude. The first feature film from writer and director Brian_Jun, Steel City was enthusiastically received during its premiere screening at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Mark Deming, Rovi
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