The Local

The story is overly simplistic and melodramatic, like some slightly better than after-school teen film.

I.e., yet another boring inner city drug drama.

Impressive technically, but little more. The acting is all impressive (excluding Eberle who is also the writer and would have been better off writing himself a cameo role). The score, soundtrack, and filming all help make the film tolerable. Hopefully everyone except Eberle will get better films to be in from now on.

So what do you watch instead? Gamer has some similar sub-story lines and written into a more interesting film overall.

Went into this with pretty high hopes and honestly the first half hour made me a bit weary. I thought i was going to be extremely disappointed. But from the half hour mark until the very end, this movie was real, raw, and honest. This is the first time I have heard of Dan Eberle, although he does look familiar, and he did an incredible job at portraying his emotions and confusion about where his place in life is. I always have an immense amount of respect for people who can write, direct, and star in the same movie. The acting from each character didn't come off as strong or over the top. In fact, it didn't seem like acting at all, it was very natural. Happy to say that I was impressed with this film, and I'm very glad that I watched it. Great underlying story of the importance of family, the support needed to be clean, and how we can go out of our way to help others that are in worse shape than ourselves.

Reminded me of The Bourne Supremacy, but much better because the sense of reality this film brings. This was an intense ride from beginning to end.

I was surprised to discover that Dan Eberle is the writer, and also the director and star, WOW. He has a very firm grasp of what he wants, what he's doing, the craft, very difficult to pull all these roles off and very few do it well. My hat's off to you Daniel, you're a very talented young man, keep it up.

Pay no mind to those that dissed this film, they sound jealous and ignorant.

I love that there are no stars in it. ALL the actors are excellent and totally believable, DP, color and edit, just really great stuff.

Script is boring, characters undeveloped, plot unimaginative, anticlimactic, horrible camera affects, and just all-around waste of time...

unless it was someones homework assignment...then I'd give em a D+...

But since this was actually written, directed, and produced into this mess and then put out into the world for others to view...then I must say that Dan Eberle,you are an epic failure!

Steer clear of this film that should have been put out in the garbage...

There is some brief full-frontal female nudity, but not long enough, nor satisfying enough, to warrant any amount of the time spent suffering through this junk.

This movies musical equivalent would be Raw Power by Iggy Pop on first listen it seems too gritty and haphazard but you can't deny the genius. You start thinking about how with a little work you could really market this stuff to the masses. But eventually you come to your senses and realize you would never listen to crap that they market to the masses anyway Everyone in this film looks as if they need of a good scrubbing and a shot of penicillin. Dan Eberle is amazing take Vin Diesel combine him with a street addict than beat your creation with a sock full of nickels and you've got the character he plays. Unfortunately I think this movie will be lost on a lot of folks. I remember reading In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway for the first time and didn't know what the hell was going on till I realized that each story was a vignette. This movie is much the same we pop in somewhere in the middle and things go from there. Dan Eberle has created a character that is a lot more than he's letting on and is seeking redemption for things only alluded. I know everyone's gonna puke but I really would like to see more of this character to fill in a few of the gaps. This movie succeeds in capturing the feel of the street a lot like Taxi Driver did in the 70's and Dan Eberle could be the anti hero model for the New Millennium.