{"id":24597,"date":"2014-09-09T05:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T09:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24597"},"modified":"2017-03-06T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:21:07","slug":"water-dogs-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/water-dogs-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Dogs (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Matthew Slamowitz\u2019s short film \u201cWater Dogs\u201d isn\u2019t so much about the beauty of New York, but about good luck and learning to pay that luck forward. \u201cWater Dogs\u201d is a compelling and very entertaining short dramedy about a homeless man who gets the chance to make a life for himself when events occur that drops everything in to place before his eyes. The trick behind this odd good luck is how he\u2019s going to choose to use it in the long run.<\/p>\n

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Bob Jaffe gives an excellent performance as the homeless man whose day changes when a stranger passes him by dropping a lottery ticket by accident. After scratching it, his reward is a mere dollar, which he uses to buy a hot dog. But when its vendor, a middle Eastern man, is taken in by government agents, the cart is left abandoned. Deciding to take the remaining food left inside, he\u2019s mistaken for a vendor, and begins selling the hot dogs when he discovers the beer he dropped in to the water adds to the flavor.<\/p>\n

Before long he\u2019s the hit of New York, and he begins carefully trying to use his success in his favor without being discovered. \u201cWater Dogs\u201d is an exceptional film that pays homage to the charms of New York, all the while unfolding a classic tale of an underdog who manages to become a success by luck of the draw. Matthew Slamowitz\u2019s direction is stellar with sharp editing that unfold the story of this man in a short time and still feels very complete in the end. We\u2019re not sure where he\u2019s going next, but we root for him to succeed even after the credits have closed. \u201cWater Dogs\u201d is a great slice of life dramedy that should be sought out, and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing Matthew Slamowitz\u2019s next project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Matthew Slamowitz\u2019s short film \u201cWater Dogs\u201d isn\u2019t so much about the beauty of New York, but about good luck and learning to pay that luck forward. \u201cWater Dogs\u201d is a compelling and very entertaining short dramedy about a homeless man who gets the chance to make a life for himself when events occur that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[302,501,938],"class_list":["post-24597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24599,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions\/24599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}