There are many good films that have failed at the box office as a result of changes in the public’s habits since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. some were bad but others deserved much better luck and today I come to talk to you about one of her. This is ‘In a New York neighborhood’, which is finally available on HBO Max.
Adaptation of the stage musical lin manuel mirandathe same genius behind ‘Hamilton’, ‘In a New York neighborhood’ hit theaters in June 2021 – it should have hit theaters a year earlier, but Warner decided to delay it – and it crashed at the box office, since it cost 55 million dollars and barely earned 45 million.
A complete failure that even led the study to decide do not publish it in physical format in Spain -something incomprehensible if we take into account that it did arrive in other countries up to 4K and including dubbing in Spanish-, hence its launch on HBO Max is even more important.
Why do you have to get it back?
The film’s story revolves around the residents of Whasington Heights, a New York neighborhood, paying special attention to Usnavi (Anthony Ramos, whom we will soon see in ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’), the owner of a winery who has a crush on one of his regular customers but who dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic one day. Of course, there are many characters with weight in a plot in this vibrant musical in which both immigration and romance have a great weight in the plot.
Despite having a clear emotional component, what stands out most in ‘In a New York neighborhood’ is his contagious optimism and the energy with which he manages to transmit it to the public. That makes it perhaps a bit superficial, but at all times it feels like a thoughtful decision to get the rhythm flowing in a way that makes it hard not to get carried away. That’s as long as you don’t approach her wanting to focus solely on the negative, of course.
For my part, I think it has so many unforgettable scenes -although the editing sometimes tarnishes certain situations a bit- and the songs are so good that any hit that can be put happens to matter very little to me.
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