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Blackbird is a 2007 American drama film directed and written by Adam Rapp and starring Gillian Jacobs, Paul Sparks, and Danny Hoch. It was adapted from a play written by Rapp. It debuted at South by Southwest and went on to screen at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Charlotte Film Festival, where it won "Best Narrative Feature".
Mar 12, 2007 · Blackbird: Directed by Adam Rapp. With Paul Sparks, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Shannon, Annie Parisse. A teen runaway falls in love with a fellow heroin junkie. But the two are far too deep in their drug addictions for love to offer any hope.
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Jun 30, 2001 · Adam Rapp. It's Christmas a Desert Storm veteran with a herniated disk and a 19-year-old runaway heroin addict share the holiday in a filthy, rundown squat on New York's Canal Street.
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Writer: Blackbird. Adam Rapp was born on 15 June 1968 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Blackbird (2007), The Looming Tower (2018) and Flesh and Bone (2015).
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In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
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Jun 15, 2001 · “Snow has a voice,” we’re told early on in “Blackbird,” and there’s no denying that the newly ubiquitous dramatist Adam Rapp has one, too — or perhaps several.
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Writer-director Adam Rapp's gritty urban romance Blackbird unfolds in mid-1990s Manhattan. The picture dramatizes the ill-fated courtship between two melancholic heroin addicts - Gulf War veteran Bayliss (Paul Sparks) and ex-stripper Froggy (Gillian Jacobs) - as they fall in love and battle magnetizing addictions.
