- A group of people, living on the edge of society, try to survive on the streets of New York City in the shadow of the World Trade center in the early seventies.
- Apple Joe (Academy Award Nominee Michael Dunn) is a society dropout in search of a more meaningful life. The former University professor struggles with his inner demons and a past he would like to bury while scratching out an existence as a street vendor. A chance to guide the fates for some street kids, misguided runaways and the homeless may be more than he can handle. "Man in the Mirror" reflects a time when the greedy ruled over the world.—Frank Weston
- Synopsis / MAN IN THE MORROR©
Man In The Mirror, is a gripping, gritty, heart warming story for all ages about a group of people living on the edge trying to survive living in New York City chasing the elusive American dream played out under the shadows of the rising World Trade Center Twin Towers in the early seventies.
Apple Joe (Academy Award nominee Michael Dunn, portray a dwarf trying to escape his path and find a world that will accept him for who he is). Dunn play a dropout university professor now turn street apple cart vendor hoping to bury his past while struggling with internal ghosts in a City with no walls hoping to avoid being adopted into a leadership role for the misguided, runaways, street kids and the homeless.
All this changes when Apple Joe meets a man with a mirror. Unable to avoid any longer his destiny (Dunn) Apple Joe is forced to mingles with homeless characters among them a Vietnam Veteran player by noted (Actor Martin Sheen who is seen in eight other unforgettable roles.) Apple Joe, realizing the neglect of the homeless hallucinating in the streets unable to take care of their basic needs can no longer stand by and watch the suffering as young women willing sell themselves for a ten dollar a night room.
Apple Joe, in his super human efforts confronts an increasingly indifferent system and society turn to the one street rival he dislike the most for help, Wallace Jones an unemployed Black man played by (Johnny Brown, king of the seventies and eighties Black TV sitcoms.) Brown while impersonating a blind man panhandling has become a successful competitor on the one street Apple Joe sees as his very own. Apple Joe also enlist the help of an insecure New York City Irish Police Officer name Hargrove, who rely on Apple Joe to keep his job and keep him out of trouble with his African American boss the Police Captain. Induct acquire
While in search of the Holy Grail: the prefect environment for the homeless, the street kids, young women in harms way we meet time and again Martin Sheen in the nine powerful characters that become the many turning points for this heart warming human story about love and survival in the Big Apple. Through their efforts Apple Joe, Wallace Jones and Office Hargrove see the possibility for a new beginning and set out to follow Apple Joes vision and a homeless Vietnam Veteran (Martin Sheen) into an uncertain future full of hopes and dreams.
Man In The Mirror captures a sense of what life was like in the seventies when greed was king and everyone was for himself. The film acts as a mirror for the viewers and suggest that they reexamine what is truly important in their lives and the world around them while there is still time.
Frank Weston, producer, writer, director. Investors and distributors only please contact Westimsco@aol.com. Copyright © All rights reserved.
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