Everyday People

Independent filmmaker Jim McKay (Girls Town) writes and directs the ensemble film Everyday People, produced in part by HBO Films. The story revolves around a neighborhood eatery in Brooklyn called Raskins, a Jewish-owned-and-operated restaurant with an almost exclusively black clientele. After years ...more

Everyday People is writer/director Jim McKay's disappointingly pedantic follow-up to the beautifully restrained and naturalistic drama Our Song. Everyday People is essentially a John Sayles-esque movie about gentrification, albeit without the requisite sociopath and with Sayles' seeming indifference to composition replaced by McKay's fairly strong, evocative visuals, courtesy of accomplished cinematographer Russell Fine, who shot McKay's first film, Girls Town. While generally well received, ...more