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Putty Hill is a 2010 American independent drama film directed by Matthew Porterfield, and starring Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, and James Siebor. The plot focuses on friends and family who gather to remember a young man in the aftermath of his death and attempt to reconstruct his last days.
Putty Hill is a documentary-narrative hybrid that portrays the grief and life of a working-class neighborhood in Baltimore after a young man's death. The film is based on the cast and locations of a previous project, Metal Gods, that fell through due to financing issues.
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him.
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- Dustin Ray
- Matt Porterfield
- Drama
Jun 23, 2010 · Matthew Porterfield's film, which takes place in a poor, wooded suburb of Baltimore, involves the death by overdose of a young man named Cory. We never meet him, although we see his portrait at a memorial service. The portrait tells us nothing: He projects no personality for the camera.
Mar 9, 2010 · Last night, at the Tribeca Screening Room, Matthew Porterfield unveiled his second feature, “Putty Hill” (which premièred earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival), and it’s...
Feb 15, 2011 · The first impression created by Matt Porterfield’s “ Putty Hill ” is that of an abandoned world. Against a silent backdrop, the filmmaker displays the vacant rooms of a creaky house in...
In Putty Hill, Matt Porterfield’s keenly observed portrait of young people in a Baltimore suburb coming together in the wake of a friend’s death, the actors play versions of themselves, dramatizing their plights and pleasures in the service of fiction.
