Straight Outta Tompkins
A young man in New York gets out of his silence and turns from being a troubled child into an addict after he has been wrong to welcome a famous drug dealer from the Near East. This young man shows an integrated picture of the life of addicted addicts in a funny picture in addition to the violence of drug dealers and addicts.
20 June 1947, Kingston, New York, USA
15 March 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 December 1945, New York City, New York, USA
13 September 1968, San Juan, Puerto Rico
7 July 1962, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
March 03, 2015
Straight Outta Tompkins is rarely boring, but neither does it come close to attaining the hard-hitting moral force its creator is clearly striving for.
March 05, 2015
"Straight Outta Tompkins" undeniably commands attention but also strives for authenticity ham-handedly.
March 04, 2015
Only in his early 20s, Zephyr Benson makes a remarkably assured debut as writer, director and star of "Straight Outta Tompkins," his tongue-in-cheek title for his past as a middle-class drug dealer in lower Manhattan.
March 09, 2015
Zephyr Benson wrote, directed, produced and starred in this fitfully engaging but unconvincing account of his own tumultous, drug-addled youth.
