SUMMER
OF
SAM
With
John
Leguizamo,
Adrien
Brody,
Mira
Sorvino,
Jennifer
Esposito,
Michael
Rispoli,
Michael
Badalucco,
Saverio
Guerra,
Brian
Tarantina,
Anthony
LaPaglia,
John
Savage,
Ben
Gazzara
Directed
by
Spike
Lee
Very
interesting
shift
for
Spike
Lee,
focusing
on
the
Son
Of
Sam
murders
during
a
New
York
heat
wave
in
1977.
Naturally
intolerance
on
many
levels
make
up
part
of
the
narrative
as
it
is
told
from
the
perspective
of
a
womanizing
all
night
disco
partyboy,
with
peripheral
South
Bronx
characters
including
Italian
mooks
and
a
guy
from
the
neighbourhood
returning
as
a
punk
after
a
stint
abroad.
Besides
the
baffled
cops,
he
also
gives
the
viewer
a
glimpse
of
the
mentally
unstable
killer,
not
keeping
it
a
mystery
or
secret.
This
is
in
fact
necessary
to
substantiate
the
paranoia
growing
amid
friends
on
who
the
killer
might
be.
Another
New
York
obsession
lay
to
rest
for
Spike.
5
/
B
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PB
1
2
3
4
5
6
A
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B
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C
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