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Topside

2022 · 85 min

A grim, immersive plunge into a mother and child's desperate night, tense and heartbreakingly real.

Directed by
Celine Held, Logan George
Genres
Drama
Starring
Celine Held, Zhalia Farmer, FatLip
Overview
Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter as their world is thrown into chaos.

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Directed by
Celine Held, Logan George
Genres
Drama
Starring
Celine Held, Zhalia Farmer, FatLip
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • family
  • isolation
  • politics
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance0
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Celine Held, Logan George
Written by
Logan George, Celine Held
Starring
Celine Held, Zhalia Farmer, FatLip, Jared Abrahamson, Gino Vento, Tonye Patano, Lorrie Odom, Cynthia Tombros
Music
David Baloche
Cinematography
Lowell A. Meyer
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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