Emilio Estevez’s library drama The Public is made for two people: Doug Ford and Emilio Estevez GlobeArts
is writer-director Emilio Estevez’s grand, well-meaning and extremely dumb vanity project/tribute to the public-library system. Taking place almost entirely inside Cincinnati, Ohio’s main downtown library, the drama focuses on one tremendously heroic librarian who joins forces with the city’s homeless population to help stage an after-hours occupation of the building during a cold snap.
This inciting incident happens relatively early in the film, leaving the remaining hour and a half available for Estevez to hammer home his obvious point and dip his toes into some white-saviour tropes. Oh, and since Estevez is in charge, he casts Taylor Schilling as his two-decades-younger love interest, and calls in favours from famous friends to populate the rest of his ensemble. Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Slater and Gabrielle Union all look like they’d rather be somewhere else.
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