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A New York Heartbeat

New York, 1957. SPIDER, a 17-year-old gang leader looking to make a rep, gets in way over his head when he blunders into the gambling nest of a notorious gangster. On the run, he's found and taken in by a sheltered young woman, TAMARA, who lives with her reclusive uncle, BIG DIDI, on the top floor of an abandoned hotel. She manages to keep Spider a secret from the bedridden Didi, an exiled crime lord who was gunned down and presumed dead 30 years earlier by the same gangster, CASKET MIKE, now pursuing Spider...

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Cast & Crew See All

Escher Holloway
Spider
Rachel Brosnahan
Tamara
Eric Roberts
Casket Mike

Awards

  • 2014 - Best Film - Feature Film - winner
  • 2014 - NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Best of 2014 Award - Best Performance in a Drama - nominated
  • 2013 - Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature Film - winner

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