Sunshine Hotel

Sunshine Hotel

2001 en 98 minutes

Rating: 7.4

Plot

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.”

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Cast

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith

Narrator (voice)/Self

Tony Bell

Tony Bell

Self

Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis

Self

Kasmir

Kasmir

Self

Vic Kosa

Vic Kosa

Self

L.A. Nelson

L.A. Nelson

Self

Ray Stark

Ray Stark

Self

Kerry

Kerry

Self

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