Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel, one of the few remaining affordable refuges for the destitute and out of luck, a world that has seemingly stood still for more than eight decades. Here the hotel residents live in tiny four-by-six-foot cubicles crowned by a ceiling of chicken wire. Focusing on several of the Sunshine's denizens – including a transgender woman saving all her money for additional surgeries and a hotel manager who doubles as its resident philosopher – Dominic presents a non-judgmental snapshot of a diverse group of characters as memorable as the characters at Harry Hope's bar in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh.
Sunshine Hotel has generally received very positive reviews.
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By Phil Hall (302) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Dec 2002
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Sunshine Hotel was released in 2001 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 5 reviews, giving Sunshine Hotel (2001) an average rating of 77%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 93%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 70%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Sunshine Hotel than critics were.
With a score of 77%, Sunshine Hotel is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2001, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2001 with similar scores include films like The Others, Donnie Darko and All About Lily Chou-Chou.
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