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Summer Of Sam

[1999, Movie]

Summer Of Sam: Review

Dead end kids: Al Palagonia, Ken Garito, John Leguizamo, Michael Rispoli and Adrien Brody

A tabloid slice of tabloid life, ragged, vivid, awkward and punchy all at once. Writer-producer-director Spike Lee's hopped-up, sexed-up reimagining of the long hot summer of 1977, when dirty, un-tourist-friendly NYC sweltered in the shadow of the .44 caliber killer, is an unexpected companion piece to DO THE RIGHT THING. They're kinetic swirls of insular New York neighborhood life, laced with mob mentality, heat waves, fast girls and macho guys, street dynamics, intergenera... read more