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Watch: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It’s here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him..
Plot: When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the days leading up to Hurricane Sandy, these parallel stories of mother and son take the viewer on a touching journey of community and connection in and below New York City.
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	6.4/10 Votes: 498
	88% | RottenTomatoes
	86/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 11 Popularity: 2.089 | TMDB

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Authentic and moving
“And I shall rest my head between two worlds, in the valley of the vanquished”- Leolo Lozone

There have been several well-known films about autism including Rain Man and The Black Balloon, but none I’ve seen are more authentic or moving than Sam Fleischner’s remarkable second feature Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. The film, written by Rose Lichter-Marck and Micah Bloomberg and winner of a special jury prize at Tribeca, is without savants, big name stars uttering clever catch phrases, and non-stop irrelevant chatter. In fact, its main protagonist, thirteen-year-old Ricky (Jesus Sanchez Valez), hardly speaks at all. He doesn’t need to. His face tells us all we need to know about his alienation and disconnection.

Ricky, afflicted with what is today known as ASD, an autism spectrum disorder, lives with his family in Far Rockaway, Queens and struggles to fit in at school which he attends only sporadically. An administrator tells Alex’s mother Mariana (Andrea Suarez) that they have no budget to give proper attention to a special needs child like Ricky but Mariana has little choice. Working as a housekeeper to make ends meet, she would like to have Ricky attend a special school but is prevented from doing so by its prohibitive cost and by the fact that she is undocumented.

Ricky’s father Ricardo Sr. (Tenoch Huerta Mejia) works out of town, taking whatever construction jobs he can get but his work comes with the price of not being at home to support Ricky. Ricky’s sister Carla (Azul Zorrilla) shows little understanding of her brother’s needs and, like many teenagers, is primarily focused on herself. Resenting having to take her brother to school every day and pick him up when its time to go home, one day she “forgets” to pick him up and tells her mother that he is now old enough to come home by himself. Unfortunately, when Carla does not show up, Ricky follows a man with a dragon symbol on his jacket heading onto the subway.

The centerpiece of the film is the boy’s eleven-day odyssey riding the A-train to Manhattan and back, as he encounters all of what New York has to offer except for connection. He sits by himself, withdrawn and alone and does not communicate with anyone around him. Shot in real time (passengers had to sign consent forms), he is a witness to teenage break dancers, dire warnings from gospel preachers, old men telling stories to their children, a young woman clipping her boyfriend’s fingernails, and many “colorful” conversations about almost anything. Through it all, Ricky remains a passive observer, slowly retreating deeper into himself. He drinks water only when he finds a half full bottle and eats nothing until a homeless man gives him a banana.

The only sound we hear coming from him is an internal voice-over talking about people’s feet and the shoes they are wearing. As Ricky’s unforgiving ordeal continues, a different drama is taking place above the ground as his mother searches for her son together with her friend Carmen (Marsha Stephanie Blake), a saleswoman in the shoe store that Ricky frequents. They roam the beaches of Far Rockaway, post fliers with Ricky’s picture on it, and talk to the police, but without expectations. As Ricky begins to visibly show the stress of his journey, the distinction between shadow and substance becomes murky and it is unclear what is reality and what is hallucination.

The threat of Hurricane Sandy adds a new dimension and a new desperation to the search and as the storm approaches and Ricky’s father returns to join in the search, the film builds an unbearable tension that holds us tightly in its grip. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors cares about its characters and their story is presented without an iota of sentimentality or pandering. It does not attempt to teach us any lessons or strain for our sympathy. It leaves us shaken because we know that we have encountered the truth and while that is often a disturbing experience, it can also be an exhilarating one.

A little lost angel finds his way in the subway jungle.
The 1953 independently made cult classic, “Little Rebel”, told the story of a runaway kid believing thanks to a prank that he accidentally killed his younger brother. He runs off to Coney Island, finding himself, while his regretful younger brother searches in a panic for him. Over 63 years, that has become a classic of the independent genre, and at 60 years old, seemingly influenced this modern independent masterpiece which I hope one day is considered a classic.

Young Ricky is an autistic 13 year old often ignored and resented by his older sister, and desperately loved and worried about by his hard working mother. Ricky is not picked up one day after school by his sister, and ends up riding the trains, seemingly for days, while his mother searches desperately for him as the threat of a hurricane approaches. Through the eyes of this sweet but troubled teen, we see what autism is all about: the fears, the obsessions, the fascinations. It’s a difficult mind to live with, so the audience will be glued, knowing that life in the city on a daily basis is difficult enough for a “normal” person, let alone someone with a developmental disease such as autism. In reading about the symptoms of autism, I noticed several things that Ricky did listed, although his reactions to strangers (particularly a young man missing a lower arm) do indicate that he is approachable.

Many of the situations that Ricky goes through I’ve seen on the train, from random acts of kindness to sudden acts of cruelty through humiliating inhumanity and threats of violence. The family struggles to find their way as they search for him, with anger and fear from the mother towards her daughter, fear of being identified as an illegal alien, and the understanding and love it takes to bring a family together. Often, the action is seemingly through the eyes of Ricky, sometimes the mother, giving this an interesting perspective. The people on the train are all identifiable as people I’ve seen, and when the mention of a possible super-storm arriving, it brings back the days of the previous years Sandy. This is a film to be shared and cherished with family, as it really opens the eyes to many issues, most importantly the issues surrounding autism.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Sam Fleischner
Writer Rose Lichter-Marck, Micah Bloomberg
Actors Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Andrea Suarez Paz, Azul Zorrilla
Country United States
Awards 4 wins & 3 nominations
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