Fresh
Steel City is gritty, blue-collar and surprisingly dry-eyed. If it hadn't been a movie, it could have been a song off Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
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Steel City
Overview
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his father's house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house.
Director and cast
- Brian Jun Director
- John Heard as Carl Lee
- Tom Guiry as PJ Lee
- America Ferrera as Amy Barnes
- Clayne Crawford as Ben Lee
- Laurie Metcalf as Marianne Karn
- Raymond J. Barry as Vic Lee
- Jamie Anne Allman as Maria Lee (as Jamie Anne Brown)
- Kristian Best as Michael Karns
- James DeBello as Danny
- Michael Cowan as Carpenter at Fire Job
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Many traps await novice filmmakers, but writer-director Jun has bypassed most in his absorbing debut.
Andrea Gronvall, Time Out
Fresh
Writer-director Brian Jun makes it clear that Steel City isn't about big events, even crucial inciting ones. It's about day-to-day decisions and how they change and inform relationships.
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
Fresh
Steel City is a moving look at fathers and sons. [Director] Jun neither romanticizes nor pathologizes blue-collar family life. In this earnest rust belt indie, doing the right thing means tipping the scale of justice.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The phrase 'small, personal film' can sound like an alibi for a trivial and self-indulgent vanity project, but Brian Jun's well-crafted Steel City embodies the highest promise of the term.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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