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ACTOR
Ben HylandKarina SmirnoffMarsha MasonColin Branca
DIRECTOR
Ralph Macchio
SYNOPSICS
Across Grace Alley (2013) is a English movie. Ralph Macchio has directed this movie. Ben Hyland,Karina Smirnoff,Marsha Mason,Colin Branca are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. Across Grace Alley (2013) is considered one of the best Short,Drama,Music movie in India and around the world.
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Across Grace Alley (2013) Reviews
Great short from Ralph Macchio
When I heard that a short film directed by the Karate Kid himself was playing at a local film festival (Studio City), I was curious enough to buy a ticket for the block it was showing in. I was very impressed to see that Ralph Macchio had crafted such an emotionally resonant and beautifully shot short film. It's a simple and bittersweet story about growing up. It focuses on a young boy who becomes fascinated by a dancer who he sees in the window adjacent from his New York apartment building. The relationship between the boy and the dancer is initially awkward, but morphs into something very moving and very human. After Across From Grace Alley, I will definitely keep my eyes out for more of Macchio's work. Hopefully he tackles a feature for his next go-round.
Dancer in the distance
"Across Grace Alley" is an American 25-minute live action short film from 2013, so this one has its 5th anniversary this year and it is the most recent of not too many efforts as writer and director for Ralph Macchio that many still know today of course from "The Karate Kid". He also plays one of the supporting characters here. The most known cast member otherwise is probably Marsha Mason for all her Oscar nominations, but the central character is played by child actor Ben Hyland, not known to me and apparently not related to Modern Family's Sarah Hyland. It's the story of a boy who deals with his parents not loving each other anymore and he finds the art of dance to get along better with the situation thanks to a sensual neighbor. Maybe you need to be interested in dancing yourself, or even perform this as a sport to appreciate the film here, but for me it did not work out. The connection between the soothing dances and the problems it solves to some extent never seems fulfilling to me and that's really all the film is about. The performances are tolerable, but don't really impress me that much either. The consequence of thisd slightly messed-up key component is that the film does have an ounce of pretense to it and this is also true for some of the fdialogues used in here. It takes itself far more seriously than it has the right to given the artistic outcome and overall quality. Weak is more frequent in here than strong, so I give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended.