Prince of Central Park

2000
PG-13
1h 49m

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5.1/10

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Harvey Keitel, Kathleen Turner, and Danny Aiello in Prince of Central Park (2000)

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A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.

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The poster for Prince of Central Park uses Kathleen Turner's exact photo from the poster of Love and Action in Chicago (1999). Though being released 1 year earlier than Prince of Central Park, the poster was heavily edited with a gun being held at the right side of Turner's face, including airbrushed red lipstick. The Prince of Central Park poster instead uses a largely unedited/natural photo of the actress, with the gun and lipstick absent.

Connections
Remake of The Prince of Central Park (1977)

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Written and Performed by Ayan Williams and The New York City Art Ensemble

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Yet another failed remake

Remakes are bad news. There have been many examples of this in the past decade. From movies like Bedazzled and Sabrina to TV-to-movie repurposings like Beverly Hillbillies and McHale's Navy, the field is littered with failures. One can only hope no director will ever have enough gall to remake Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

I saw this movie only because an online TV listing misidentified this as the 1977 movie that I enjoyed so many years ago. That movie had a youthful joy and sense of innocence that was refreshing in the crime-ridden NYC of the '70s. Alas, apart from the boy's name and the fact that he ran off to Central Park, nothing else was even remotely similar. This JJ is not likeable at all. He's irresponsible and selfish and backed by a host of characters that I care little about, least of all the absurd Guardian, something of a second-rate Fisher King.

It would have been nice to celebrate Central Park's sesquicentennial this year with a DVD of the first movie. For now, I'll have to continue searching and waiting for it to air.