Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

It's 6.00 am. Do you know where you are?

1988107 min5.7 / 10

A stylish, kinetic portrait of a young man's spiral through 1980s Manhattan nightlife, driven by grief and self-destruction beneath a veneer of glamour and excess.

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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