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

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

7.4

Three Colors: White

Jan 26, 1994

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

6.4

Italian for Beginners

Dec 7, 2000

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

6.1

Mala Noche

Jun 19, 1987

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.

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.

8.5

Hope

Aug 18, 2015

Claudia Recher is a young woman who has lived a horrible situation. Her sense of reality becomes an illusion as she struggles to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked life. The last witness of innocence and her internal conflicts.

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.

6.4

The Case of the Bloody Iris

Aug 4, 1972

A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.

9.0

The Dangerous Type

Apr 23, 2021

Diane, a mechanic in a small midwestern town, would do anything to leave her boring life behind.

7.5

Brave

Jan 1, 1994

Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.

4.9

Rancid

Dec 13, 2004

Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder.

0.0

Young Lust

Invalid Date

A brief encounter turns into an unforeseen wild ride when aspiring writer Raymond finds out that his charismatic new friend Xavier is on the run from a notorious drug lord.

6.6

Basquiat

Aug 9, 1996

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

4.3

In Broad Daylight

Jul 14, 2019

Jordan is kidnapped and held hostage by her estranged boyfriend Steve. Her family and community rally together to find her before it's too late. He cousin Malik makes it his personal mission to find and bring her home safely.

5.2

You're Not Alone

Jul 19, 2007

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.

0.0

this is not the end

Aug 5, 2019

Two related police officers step into a forest region searching for missing people after a mysterious accident. Thereafter realizing they are lost and seemingly walking in circles, astonishing phenomenons and unexpected encounters take place.

5.1

The Corpse Packs His Bags

Oct 1, 1972

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'