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I lived in that area (Hoboken and Jersey City)for about ten years. This film certainly captures the feel of that time and place. The dialogue is very good, the music is right and scenarios realistic. As another poster said, it looks almost like a documentary.

I like the way it humanizes these kids, who probably would have rather have been born in Westchester, but fall into what kids fall into. It just so happens that area is pretty rough.

They over-demonize the cops quite a bit, but that's to be expected. I'd say the acting is good all-around, too.

It gives the viewer some sense of how this idiocy is caused and gets blown out-of-proportion. Hopefully, the new mayor of Newark is making progress.

This thing should be an embarrassment to all involved. It is almost as if it was intentionally horrible.

It is difficult to list each and every way this was an utter waste of time, even as it was on in the background on a cable channel that is paid for no matter what it shows.

If you are considering actually spending money or time on this, do yourself a favor, take a few hours throwing pennies, slowly, one-by-one, into a wishing well, hoping it is never aired again under any circumstances, other than in Gitmo.

Unless you are the world's greatest drooling Ricci fan, make time to avoid this.

So, I was just checking IFC this afternoon to see which umpteenth repeat of -(insert your own most-annoying IFC repeat)- was on today.

'Never Get Outta the Boat,' seemed like some good advice I'd heard somewhere once, so I hit the next button.

I read the summary, saw the three stars and changed my day around a little just to watch it. I went through similar drug addict circumstances for years, so I thought I'd check out the latest piece of crap movie about it. They never get it right. Not that it would be easy to do that, but why some try is a mystery.

Also, I've been clean for a good while now, and can always use a little reminder of what I'm not missing. Some of you know how that is.

So 'Outta the Blue,' (corny enough?) comes this perfect portrayal. Its translated through LA, but is certainly universal enough in scope.

Another poster mentioned 'the wanting.' How simple. How complex.

This film captures just about every aspect of the addiction 'lifestyle' it possibly could in just a few hours. At this point, I just say 'see it,' if you want to know what that world is like, or hopefully, if you are an addict, look back at it.

All of you wannabe addicts-in-training should see it too, and get a load of what you're in for. The thing with this film is, it is so realistic, you will not be able to dismiss it.

Here are some comments, in no particular order:

-The use of the soundtrack is a perfect ten. Not too much, just enough and always right.

-The 'using' scenes are perfect.

-The 'craving' scene, in the truck ride on Slawson/Slauson (sp?) really captured that certain 'pull' the addict feels.

It definitely will make you well up, maybe even cry, tough guy. You feel like you know these people. Maybe you did. Maybe the next guy that dies is you. Was that your wife in that one scene? I could go on and on here. Just let me highly recommend it.

Oh, yeah. The acting was so realistic, I almost forgot to mention it.

Thanks, folks.

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Personal Aside

The only character missing was the befuddled Wall Street addict. John Cusack cast as me would've been ideal.