Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Acting
Fisher and Lankenau improvised most dialogue — the fumbling feels devastatingly real.
Cinematography
Digital grain turns Brooklyn into a dream you're half-remembering.
Direction
Katz lets scenes breathe until normal moments become tiny revelations.
Director
Aaron Katz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Quiet City helped define 'mumblecore' — a mid-2000s movement of dirt-cheap, dialogue-heavy films about privileged white twenty-somethings being sad in cities.
The entire film was shot for $2,000 over four days. That rooftop scene? They literally just walked up there and hoped nobody called the cops.
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