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19146. Area code (s) 215, 267, and 445. Devil's Pocket is a small neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood, bordered by Christian and Taney streets, Grays Ferry Avenue, and the Naval Square development (the former U.S. Naval Asylum ), [1] consists of rowhouses tucked near an ...
May 9, 2014 · DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: The title "God's Pocket" is a play on a south Philadelphia neighborhood of row houses known as the Devil's Pocket, though nowadays residents and realtors...
Aug 27, 2015 · Devil’s Pocket, the tiny Philadelphia neighborhood near the Schuylkill River in Southwest Center City, is not so much disappearing in the face of development as fading away. The...
May 5, 2014 · by Nick Prigge. May 5, 2014. John Slattery’s God’s Pocket is a study of a sequestered milieu, the Philadelphia neighborhood of the film’s title, that’s both leery of outsiders and problematically complacent with all its locally grown faults. The shaggy-dog story takes flight when Mickey (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a small-time crook ...
The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to mixed critical reviews, and was picked up for domestic distribution by IFC Films. The film is set in a poor working class South Philadelphia neighborhood modeled on Devil's Pocket, but filmed in Yonkers, New York, and New Jersey .
May 10, 2014 · Adapted from the novel by Peter Dexter and set in 1978 in the south Philadelphia neighborhood that gives the movie its title, God's Pocket follows Mickey (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his...
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May 9, 2014 · The novel’s setting is a South Philly neighborhood in the ‘80s known as “God’s Pocket” (the real place is called “the Devil’s Pocket,” though that name isn’t too popular these...
