CinemaOSMovie · 2001 · 1h 38m

Sunshine Hotel

68%(8)IMDbDocumentary

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.”

Directed byMichael Dominic

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 38m
Language
EN
Released
February 10, 2001
Studios
Broadway Bill Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

Nathan Smith

Narrator (voice)/Self

Tony Bell

Self

Bruce Davis

Self

Kasmir

Self

Vic Kosa

Self

L.A. Nelson

Self

Ray Stark

Self

Kerry

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Michael Dominic
Written by
Nathan Smith
Michael Dominic
Produced by
Michael Dominic

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