God's Pocket is a district in South Philadelphia, a ragged blue-collar community where people just scrape by, the kind of place that when bizarre things happen, they say you have to come from God's Pocket to understand. Then there's Mickey who doesn't and whose wayward step-son has just been killed in an incident at work. His mother wants to know what happened. And Mickey loves his wife and wants to help. Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last films, God's Pocket, with Christina Hendricks, who for several years has played alongside director John Slattery in Mad Men. God's Pocket is far from glossy Madison Avenues you can get. It is also an ensemble drama with a strong cast including John Turturro, Richard Jenkins and Eddie Marsan. I asked John Slattery how for his first feature he assembled such a team.
