Adrift in Manhattan is a 2007 film

Film

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 directed by Alfredo De Villa

Alfredo De Villa

Alfredo De Villa is a film director from Puebla, Mexico. He is best known for directing award winning films such as Adrift in Manhattan and Washington Heights, which won a special mention for directing and acting at the Tribeca Film Festival....

 and written by Nat Moss. The film features an ensemble cast

Ensemble cast

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, including Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk

Victor Rasuk

Victor Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas....

, Dominic Chianese

Dominic Chianese

Dominic Chianese is an American film, television and theatre actor, perhaps best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos.-Early life:...

, Elizabeth Peña

Elizabeth Peña

Elizabeth Peña is an American actress and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right.-Early life:...

, and William Baldwin

William Baldwin

William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners , Backdraft , Sliver , Fair Game , Virus , Double Bang , as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom , Art Heist , The Squid and the Whale , as himself...

.

The film was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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 Feature Competition. It was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 Indianapolis International Film Festival

Indianapolis International Film Festival

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, the Best Director Prize at the 2007 San Diego Film Festival and the Special Jury Ensemble Award for best cast at the 2007 Palm Beach International Film Festival

Palm Beach International Film Festival

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Plot synopsis

The film centres around New Yorkers who are lonely and emotionally lost in the big city. Rose (Graham) has separated from her school teacher husband (Baldwin) and is in deep mourning over the loss of their baby. Tomaso (Chianese) is a painter who has just learned that he's going blind

Blindness

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. And Simon (Rasuk) is a 20-year-old photo shop clerk living at home with his alcoholic

Alcoholism

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 mother.

The three strangers live along the 1/9 subway line and two of them connect in a profound way. Simon, using borrowed cameras, becomes obsessed with Rose's scarf and begins stalking her to take her picture. When she learns what he is doing, her reaction is unexpected.

Cast

Actress/Actor	Role
Heather Graham	Rose Phipps
Victor Rasuk Victor Rasuk Victor Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas....	Simon Colon
Dominic Chianese Dominic Chianese Dominic Chianese is an American film, television and theatre actor, perhaps best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos.-Early life:...	Tommaso Pensara
William Baldwin William Baldwin William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners , Backdraft , Sliver , Fair Game , Virus , Double Bang , as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom , Art Heist , The Squid and the Whale , as himself...	Mark Phipps
Elizabeth Peña Elizabeth Peña Elizabeth Peña is an American actress and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right.-Early life:...	Isabel Parades
Erika Michels	Claire Phipps
Marlene Forte Marlene Forte Marlene Forte is a Cuban-American actress. Her career has included recurring roles on House of Payne and Crossing Jordan. In 2012, she will be a series regular on TNT's revamped Dallas, playing Carmen Ramos, longtime Ewing family housekeeper and mother to Elena...	Marta Colon
Richard Petrocelli	Mr. Sneider

Filmmakers

• Alfredo de Villa ... Director, Story
• Nat Moss ... Screenplay
• John Foster .. Director of Photography
• John Coniglio ... Film Editor
• David Streefkerk ... Sound Editor
• Michael A. Levine
  Michael A. Levine
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  ... Score
• Charlotte Bourke ... Production design
• Steven J. Brown, Joshua Blum, Ian Jessel ... Producers
• G. Michael Harris, Todd Courtney, Dave Scoggin, J.A. Bremont, Jijo Reed, Ben Cohen, Bobby Yoshizumi ... Executive Producers