The Playground

Oct 12, 2017

2h 31m

★ 3.7

Overview

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

SplitWorld Pictures

The Playground Trailers

Cast

Old Homeless Man

Myles Cranford

Grandison

Merrick McCartha

Mr. Vaugn

Shane P. Allen

Joseph

Christopher Salazar

Jill

Ghadir

Hairdresser Coworker

Raye Richards

Playground Girl

Felicity Bryant

Melanie

Marci Krown

Auto Mechanic Clerk

Jennifer Paredes

Salon Patron

Taylor Koster

Karin

Katelyn Katz

Andrés Reyes is a police inspector of renowned prestige in Barcelona. After his intervention in the kidnapping of a young girl (who is finally freed by her captor), the head of the police force promotes the protagonist to commissioner. In this new role, Andres gets to work on the case of Adela, a transvestite in need of protection. An Arab mobster and a network of traffickers are hatching a plan around his victim. Andres will have a shady relationship with Adela, until the final intervention.

7.5

The Man Who Wasn't There

Oct 26, 2001

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

7.2

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sep 2, 1975

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

6.1

Youth Without Youth

Oct 26, 2007

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

6.9

Caramel

Aug 9, 2007

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

6.2

Land of Plenty

Sep 10, 2004

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

7.2

The Professional

Oct 21, 1981

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

0.0

Everything's Jake

Sep 25, 2000

A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.

6.8

Bluebeard

Mar 1, 2017

A doctor finds himself in the middle of an unsolved serial murder case after discovering a secret from a sedated patient. When dismembered bodies show up close to home, he must solve the riddle before the killer realizes what he knows.

10.0

Sick Minded

May 17, 2019

Special agent Martinez investigates a string of missing girls in south Florida, but when one of the victims is the Ambassador's daughter, the pressure rises in finding the kidnapper before it's too late.

6.8

Lock Up

Aug 4, 1989

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

6.4

Barbershop

Apr 1, 2002

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

4.8

The Trace We Leave Behind

May 18, 2017

A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.

6.4

Sixth Gear

Jul 3, 1981

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

5.5

Blood on Her Name

Feb 28, 2020

A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.

6.6

Happy-Go-Lucky

Apr 18, 2008

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

7.0

Now and Forever

Sep 10, 1956

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.