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"Eastside" is a well-made melodrama, full of smarts and lots of heart, that shows that Mario Lopez, who played Greg Louganis in the Olympic diving champ's television bio, is ready for the big screen. He's good-looking and charismatic, with a star's effortless command of attention.
Lopez plays Antonio, who's celebrating his 21st birthday as he ends a two-year sentence at Folsom (for getting caught working in a chop shop). He's used his prison time to study the workings of the stock market and, back in L.A., heads for the posh law offices of his upwardly mobile older brother Horatio (Mark D. Espinoza), who is not exactly glad to see him.
Antonio, however, has a terrier tenacity and winds up following Horatio to a...