Row Your Boat (1999)

3.9/10 106 min Drama Romance Crime

Overview

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?

Cast

Jon Bon Jovi

Jamey Meadows

Jill Hennessy

Patti

William Forsythe

Gil Meadows

Bai Ling

Chun Hua

Peter Kwong

Tony Lo Fat

John Ventimiglia

Anton

Thomas Lennon

Census Taker

Bridget Moynahan

Apartment Owner

José Ramón Rosario

Homeless Shelter Resident

Alysia Reiner

(scenes deleted)

Eileen Galindo

Latina Girl in Apartment Building (uncredited)

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