Summer off Sam
Summer off Sam is an American film carried out by Spike Lee, left in 1999. He reports the psychosis with New York around the meutres in series of David Berkowitz, known as “the son of Sam” ( his off Sam ), during the canicular summer of 1977.
Synopsis
New York, be 1977. Whereas the city knows a historical heat wave, a serial killer, His off Sam , striking in the Italian-American district of South Bronx. The rumors and suspicions swell, the press maintains ambient paranoia: New York suffocates.
Comment
In Summer off Sam , Spike Lee who moves away for the first time from the community Afro-américain E to plunge in the Bronx Italo-américain. It does not give up therefore its topics of predilections, the friendship and the social strain between communities, which here entrechoquent themselves in a suffocating atmosphere. Effective film of manners, Summer off Sam is also a film with message, which, of a glance ironic and nostalgic (the music, omnipresent, is a character of film) on mislayings of the past, invites the spectator with a reflection on the tolerance.
Data sheet
- Title: Summer off Sam
- Realization: Spike Lee
- Scenario: Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli
- Production: Jeri Carroll-Colicchio and Michael Imperioli
- Production company: Touchstone Pictures
- Music: Terence Blanchard
- Photography: Ellen Kuras
- Assembly: Barry Alexander Brown
- Decorations: Therese DePrez
- Costumes: Ruth E. Casing
- Country of origin: the United States
- Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
- Lasted: 142 minutes
- Coming out date: July 2nd 1999
Distribution
- John Leguizamo: Vinny
- Adrien Brody : Richie
- Mira Sorvino: Dionna
- Jennifer Esposito: Ruby
- Michael Rispoli: Joey T
- Saverio Guerra: Woodstock
- Brian Tarantina : Bobby Del Fiore
- Al Palagonia: Anthony
- Ken Garito: Brian
- Baby Neuwirth: Gloria
- Patti LuPone : Helen
- Mike Starr: Eddie
- Anthony LaPaglia: the inspector Lou Petrocelli
- Roger Guenveur Smith: the inspector Curt Atwater
- Ben Gazzara: Luigi
- Joe Lisi: Tony Olives
- James Reno: Crony
- Arthur J. Nascarella: Mario
- John Savage: Simon
- Jimmy Breslin: Itself
- Michael Badalucco: Its off Sam
- Spike Lee: John Jeffries
- Lucia Grillo: Chiara
- Nelson Vasquez : Officer Cruz
- Darielle Gilad : Debbie Cadabra
- Michael To grip: Raygun
- Jessica Galbreath: Fire
- Evan Cohen: Cock
- George Tabb: Spider
- Michael Imperioli: Midnite
- Victor Colicchio: Chickie
- Peter Maloney: the inspector Timothy Dowd
- Christopher Wynkoop: Sam Carr
- John Turturro: Harvey the Black Dog (voice)
External bond
- Summer off Sam on Internet Movie Database
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