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In one stunning moment, Marty, trying to take a shower in a flophouse, ends up falling through the ceiling and onto a shady man (Abel Ferrara) trying to give his dog a bath in the unit below.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, crime raged out of control in the flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses.
—Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
The setting is a dusty town square, bordered on one side by the posh Siete Mares Hotel and on the other by the city’s worst quarter, fronted by the Ritz Men Only, a dangerous flophouse.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, crime raged out of control in the flophouses.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
Many of the locals worked in factories and slept in flophouses.
—Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
The setting is a dusty town square, bordered on one side by the posh Siete Mares Hotel and on the other by the city’s worst quarter, fronted by the Ritz Men Only, a dangerous flophouse.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flophouse. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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