
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.... (Full plot summary below)
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Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBahrani, as director, not only stays out of the way of the simplicity of his story, but relies on it; less is more, and with restraint he finds a grimy eloquence. |
| Contra Costa TimesMary F. PolsMan Push Cart is likely too slow to pull in much of an audience, but that's a shame, because it has so much empathy for the plight of the lonely. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzDelivers the grind without sugar and clichés. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)Recalling Italian neorealist movies such as The Bicycle Thief, Man Push Cart is a slice of a very sad life. |
| Reel.comPam Grady... a film that is at once a delicate, moving drama and a vibrant city symphony, offering a predawn view of New York seldom captured on film. |
| New York PostLou LumenickA fascinating, sad, sometimes quite poetic window into a grueling way of life most of us know little about. |
| Village VoiceDennis LimBahrani and his DP Michael Simmonds illuminate the murky beauty -- and hardscrabble economics -- of New York's all-night shadowland. |
| TV GuideKen FoxRazvi, once a pushcart vendor himself, is particularly good; he brings a visceral poignancy to a character who comes to represent every desperate soul who ever tried to make it in the land of plenty. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThis modern slice of neorealism has been made with a skill, and humanity, that suggests Bahrani may have a "Bicycle Thief" in him yet. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenFilmed in less than three weeks, Man Push Cart is an exemplary work of independent filmmaking carried out on a shoestring. Mr. Razvi’s convincing performance is a muted portrait of desolation bordering on despair. |