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Sunshine Hotel

Sunshine Hotel

Documentary
2001, Movie, 1h 38min
Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel, one of the few remaining affordable refuges for the destitute and out of luck, a world that has seemingly stood still for more than eight decades. Here the hotel residents live in tiny four-by-six-foot cubicles crowned by a ceiling of chicken wire. Focusing on several of the Sunshine’s denizens – including a transgender woman saving all her money for additional surgeries and a hotel manager who doubles as its resident philosopher – Dominic presents a non-judgmental snapshot of a diverse group of characters as memorable as the characters at Harry Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”
Country: United States
Director:
Michael Dominic
Cast:
Nathan Smith,
Tony Bell,
Bruce Davis,
Kasmir
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Michael Dominic
Director
Nathan Smith
As Narrator (voice)/Self
Nathan Smith
Writer
Tony Bell
As Self
Bruce Davis
As Self
Kasmir
As Self
Vic Kosa
As Self

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In the heart of New York City's notorious Skid Row, the Sunshine Hotel stands as a last refuge for those on the fringes of society. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes us inside this fading institution, where residents live in tiny, cramped rooms and struggle to make ends meet. Despite the difficult circumstances, the film captures moments of hope, resilience, and humanity among the hotel's diverse inhabitants, including a transgender woman saving up for her next surgery and the hotel manager who doubles as its philosopher-in-residence. Through their stories, Sunshine Hotel offers a powerful and poignant portrait of lives often overlooked and forgotten.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Sunshine Hotel include Maradona, the Golden Kid, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Everest, The Five Obstructions, Sharkwater, Pripyat.

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Sunshine Hotel was released in theaters on February 10, 2001.

 

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