The indie drama “Topside” opens with a startling image: a five-year-old girl sleeping on the ground with a beam of light shining on her from above. She’s underground living in the tunnels of New York beneath the subway system and she’s awoken by workers with flashlights. Worse, her mother is nowhere to be seen and she mills around with other homeless people, watching cartoons on her screen device until she arrives.

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