Product Details

• Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Lucie Ayala, Robert Celli, Barrow Davis, Hopwood DePree
• Directors: Richard Speight Jr.
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Leo Films
• VHS Release Date: December 9, 2003
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009XN4R
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #698,772 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 2001 – Mick Lasalle

"A little gem."

San Jose Mercury News, March 5, 2001 – Glenn Lovell

"Energetic, naughty, and very funny... Jed Mortenson and Richard Speight Jr. co-directed this indie gem with insight and affection."

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars North Beach-- the never seen MUST SEE, August 30, 2004

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W. Hardcastle "enabler" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: North Beach (DVD)

This movie is HI-larious. I have been waiting for a DVD to come out once I heard that it might not get a full national release (I heard it had something to do with the physical film format, not content).

This is a real person's comedy. Excruciatingly funny, mostly because it doesn't try too hard to be so. That and Richard Speight, Jr. (who did a dramatic turn in "Band of Brothers") is brilliant here as (co) director and actor.

For anyone who has lived in an urban setting and understood the idea of 'people in the neighborhood," you'll get it. Also, if you've ever hooked up while drunk and hoped your girlfriend would never find out, yeah-- you'll get it too.

Oddly, this is one of the only modern San Francisco movies I can think of that doesn't feature the gratuitous gay character. But then again, that left me thinking: "They live in SF and don't have any gay friends? Not even the girls?" Then again, we hardly hang out in the same clubs late night, which sort of starts this roller-coaster.

I feel special that I only got to see this by chance at a local film festival. And I feel the film-makers and film-goers have been robbed. This would have been a hit in wide release, as it is so far removed from the lowest-common-denominator romantic-comedy scholck the major studios churn out, and so far above.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE!!, August 26, 2004

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Monica M. (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: North Beach (DVD)

I saw this at the San Francisco Film Festival a while back. A great story about the lifestyle of North Beach with a humorous story. The story takes place the morning after the protagonist cheats on his girlfriend. The protagonist, after doing his daily rounds of visiting local cafes, etc. quickly realizes that there is no such thing as a secret in North Beach. The sound on the DVD is great and the movie has a kick ass soundtrack with SF local bands like the Uninvited and Vinyl.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT MOVIE!, August 25, 2004

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Bern41 (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: North Beach (DVD)

I saw this at the Cinequest Film Festival a few years ago and have been waiting for it to come out on DVD. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is either young or young at heart. It's a little rough around the edges, with a lot of language, but if you can handle that it's a great little movie. The DVD is just as good as the film, serving up a variety of entertaining extras, like a hilarious director's commentary that's just as funny and irreverant as the film, a fantastic trailer, and the not-to-be missed "North Beach, the condensed version". A great home video find for any collection!