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From a troubled child to an addict. He is a young teenager who lives in New York after making a mistake in welcoming a drug dealer from the Near East. His life turns into a spontaneous, futile and ridiculous life, sometimes a life full of violence and risk without shame or hesitation.
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.
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.