
Row Your Boat
1999-04-18 · 106 min · ★ 3.9
Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he must try to build his life up from the gutter. Resisting constant offers from his brother, played by William Forsythe (Dick Tracy, The Rock, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo) to rejoin the insidious world of crime, Meadows takes a menial job as a door to door census worker. Among his many encounters throughout this job, he meets a young Chinese immigrant who is just as unhappy in her life as he is in his. These two slowly hit it off and a relationship gradually begins to develop between them. Can Jamey Meadows learn to live in this new life, or will the temptations of his old ways drag him back to where he started?
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- Directors
- Sollace Mitchell
- Production companies
- 49th Parallel Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Jon Bon JoviJamey Meadows
Jill HennessyPatti
William ForsytheGil Meadows
Bai LingChun Hua
Peter KwongTony Lo Fat
John VentimigliaAnton
Thomas LennonCensus Taker
Bridget MoynahanApartment Owner
José Ramón RosarioHomeless Shelter Resident
Alysia Reiner(scenes deleted)
Eileen GalindoLatina Girl in Apartment Building (uncredited)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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