Movie review: A city boy heads east to find the West in 'Concrete Cowboy'

Sometimes, filmmakers just pack too much stuff into their movies, hoping to attract viewers by offering a little something for everyone. If it's good stuff, that pushes the plot(s) along, all power to it. Think of "Pulp Fiction," "Boogie Nights," "Nashville," "Snatch." They worked well, with plotlines and characters never getting in the way of one another. That each of those movies was, in its own way, kinda crazy, also helped.

But multi-narrative films don't have to be eccentric, or even complicated. "Concrete Cowboy" is based on the 2011 novel "Ghetto Cowboy," whose author, G. Neri, based it on some real-life city cowboys who have run the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club in Philadelphia for the past couple of decades.