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"A Haven of Hope for the Homeless"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

NO ADDRESS is a heartrending drama about several people of varying ages who form a community in a homeless population on the streets of Sacramento. Each person has a heartbreaking story pointing to the fact that homelessness can happen to anyone. The people take in a young woman who was kicked out of her foster home because she turned 18. The miracle of the story is that through Christian faith, love and friendship, the homeless “family” finds a way to overcome their seemingly hopeless circumstances and help others do the same, including an unscrupulous businessman.

NO ADDRESS suffers a bit from multiple storylines, but this speaks to the urgency of the situation the filmmakers are trying to address. To its credit, NO ADDRESS points to solutions, such as a successful non-profit organization providing shelter and aid to homeless populations. It also advocates prayer, church, charity, faith, and salvation. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers because of some violence, adult themes, implied substance abuse, and dysfunctional family situations. NO ADDRESS also contains some sad and somewhat disturbing scenes of tragedy and misery.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong Christian, moral, redemptive worldview contains where homeless people struggling with spiritual and moral and material trials are eventually brought back to God and faith, plus salvation is at the heart of the story, the homeless people serve other homeless people at a church, they also go to church to pray for their friend, and two main characters wear cross necklaces;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

Some strong and light violence such as a man gets angry when his wife forgets to bring beer home to him then grabs her roughly and takes money from her purse before storming out of their house; a woman is harassed by a man in a car and only escapes in an alley when he decides to pursue her no longer, a woman is attacked by two men; men rifle through woman’s belongings, an assault is only averted by two men who step in to help her (the woman is pinned briefly to a wall, a switchblade is briefly wielded, and two men drive off the two assailants), men in masks invade and trash a homeless camp, a woman kicks a man in the groin and pulls off his mask, some people are beaten in a raid on their homeless camp, thugs threaten an older man with a switchblade and beat him with two or three kicks to the stomach, man yells at his son violently saying he is “worthless” and “not worth saving,” a woman is hit by a car, and she gets a little bit of blood in her hair; men attack the homeless in an abandoned building (punches, kicks, and a stabbing occur with blood from a stomach wound shown briefly); another man is attacked by thugs; a woman is shown in the hospital suffering from the advanced stages of stomach cancer;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

A man is angry his wife didn’t bring him a beer, and it’s implied he drinks heavily, a man is drinking as he watches the horse he bet on lose and becomes angry (it’s implied he drinks regularly), and a man drowns his sorrows in alcohol several times;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking, but a man says a woman “was a zombie after all the drugs” she was given in a temporary mental health facility, and a woman’s arm is full of needle marks, but a man confiscates and burns her stash of illicit drugs;

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Young woman’s belongings are stolen while she’s being mugged, vandalism, man bets on a losing horse at a racetrack, and it’s implied that a man has had a gambling problem in the past, but rebuked.

More Detail:

NO ADDRESS is a heartrending drama about a group of people of varying ages who form a community in a homeless population on the streets of Sacramento. Each person has a heartbreaking story which pointing to the fact that homelessness can happen to anyone. The miracle of the movie is that through faith, love, and friendship the homeless “family” finds a way to overcome their seemingly hopeless circumstances and help others do the same, including an unscrupulous businessman. NO ADDRESS has some gang-related street violence, adult themes and dysfunctional family situations. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.

As the movie opens, Lauren is the latest to join the ranks of the desperate and needy homeless. She lost her mother at a young age and was tossed around in the foster care system. Upon graduation, her foster mother kicks her out, because she no longer brings in money from the system.

Lauren hits the streets. Unequipped and alone, her earthly belongings, which consist of two garbage bags, are stolen. Her life is threatened. However, a down-on-his-luck young man, Jimmy, rescues Lauren from gang violence. He invites Lauren to live in his homeless tenement community.

In the tenement, Jimmy, Harris, Dora, and Violet have become a family. They look out for each other. Though the community possesses next to nothing, this is the first real family Lauren has been a part of since her mother died.

However, the community is threatened when a real estate agent named Robert (played by William Baldwin), at his wits end, seeks to destroy the homeless community to sell the land for profit. Robert does nasty and illegal things to destroy the encampment. What he doesn’t know is that he may be the next homeless man on the block.

NO ADDRESS suffers a bit from multiple storylines, but this speaks to the urgency of the situation the filmmakers are trying to get across. The same can be said for the concentration on the tragedy and misery of homelessness. This is forgivable due to the level of awareness the movie brings to viewers.

Much to its credit, NO ADDRESS points to solutions. One such solution is a successful non-profit organization called “Haven for Hope,” which serves to provide shelter and rehabilitative aid to homeless populations. NO ADDRESS also advocates prayer, church, charity, faith, and salvation. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers because of some violence, adult themes, implied substance abuse, and dysfunctional family situations. NO ADDRESS also contains some sad and somewhat disturbing scenes of tragedy and misery.

Concerned adults will want to see this movie because the homeless crisis is everybody’s responsibility. As Jesus says in Matthew 25:40, “Whatever you do for least of my people, you do for me.” So, kudos to NO ADDRESS for making the homeless issue so crystal clear and important.

NO ADDRESS goes to great lengths to demonstrate the homeless epidemic in the United States. Homeless populations are often looked at as a problem to eradicate. Many city governments simply move them around, or worse, imprison homeless people. However, if the average person stopped to try to understand the issues, viable solutions with human compassion can be found. NO ADDRESS drives home the point that every person is made in the image of God and must be treated with dignity.