An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
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THE PUBLIC is Emilio Estevez’s ambitious little movie that tackles a few key social issues while being commercially entertaining. Estevez gives himself the title role as a thankless, sensitive but realistic librarian.
After instilling to the audience the oddness and importance of the librarian in the American society with voiceover over archive black and white footage, the film opens with head librarian of downtown Cincinnati, Stuart Goodson (Estevez) heading to work one very cold morning. He encounters people who greet him on the way and it becomes obvious he is setting himself up as the sympathetic hero of the piece. He meets an…
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