THE LOCAL

Dan Eberle wrote, directed, coedited, and stars in Brooklyn gangster flick

THE LOCAL (Dan Eberle, 2009)
Available on DVD (October 20, 2009)
www.insurgentpictures.com/thelocal
An official selection of the Brooklyn Film Festival, THE LOCAL is a gritty crime drama set in parts of Brooklyn not usually shown in the movies. Dan Eberle (JailCity) wrote, directed, coedited, and stars in the film, playing Noname, a man searching for a new life, trying to escape from his past. But the streets are all he knows, and soon he is working at the bottom of the ladder for dirtbag drug dealers he could chew up and spit out in his sleep, but he decides it is better to play the game at least for a while as he regains his footing. And soon he’s hired by a detective to rescue the man’s daughter from the gang, but she’s so drugged out she doesn’t know what’s going on. Noname is a charismatic character, his eyes boring through whatever or whoever gets in his way, but Eberle can’t decide whether he’s hero or antihero. One moment Noname is kicking the crap out of people, and the next he is getting the crap kicked out of him, so it’s often difficult to figure out which character is going to show up in the next scene. And the supporting cast, which includes Maya Ferrara, Karl Herlinger, Paul James Vasquez, and Beau Allulli, is never fully developed either, upping the confusion. But there’s still something about Eberle that keeps you watching to the very end.