The Photographer

Several stalwarts of the New York independent film scene make appearances in this tale of a creatively frustrated photographer and his search through the streets of Manhattan for ten mysterious snapshots which may hold the key to continued success. The film opens as Max (Reg Rogers), a former ...more

Writer-director Jeremy Stein's feature debut, The Photographer is plagued by the nonstop strained quirkiness that sinks so many modestly budgeted independent films, and it's not helped by the heavy-handed treatment of Stein's artistic themes. The film is engaging, to a point. It's fairly well shot, and features such luminaries of indie film and theater as Mary Alice, Tom Noonan, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, but the mixture of a whiny protagonist, an unconvincing fairy tale social milieu (in which ...more