Rhythm Thief is a 1994 low budget independent feature film made in New York City’s Lower East Side that was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “Inventive, exciting, original” by director Martin Scorsese.
Director Matthew Harrison's second feature film, the standard 16mm black-and-white feature was made for $36,000 US. When his first feature film Spare Me won the Kodak Prix Tournage at the Avignon Film Festival, Harrison used the prize to complete Rhythm Thief. The film won top awards at SXSW, New Orleans Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, was released theatrically in the US and Europe, and is available on the Internet and DVD.Synopsis
Jason Andrews (Last Exit to Brooklyn) is Simon, a downwardly mobile urban white-guy who hustles a living selling audio cassette bootleg music on the streets of New York City’s Lower East Side. Simon lives in a tenement walk-up where everyone calls him “Whitey”. Ludlow Street chick Cyd (Kimberly Flynn), who has a real job, visits Simon for sex weekday mornings. Simon's bootleg-wannabe sidekick Fuller (Kevin Corrigan, The Departed) has innocent romantic fantasies about Cyd.
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