Summer of Sam (Blu-ray) R
No one is safe from son of sam
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 4, 2020
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody & Jennifer Esposito | |
Performer: | Ben Gazzara, Patti Lupone, Mike Starr, Bebe Neuwirth, Michael Imperioli, Anthony LaPaglia, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael Badalucco, Brian Tarantina, John Savage, Peter Maloney & Jimmy Breslin | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenwriting by | Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli & Spike Lee | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Spike Lee & Jon Kilik | |
Director of Photography: | Ellen Kuras | |
Voice: | John Turturro |
Entertainment Reviews:
This ultimately disappoints, but it is good to see Lee branch out into subjects which don't immediately lend themselves to his single-minded politicizing.
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Film4
...One of Spike's best joints in years. This is confident movie-making...
Total Film
One of Spike Lee's most dynamic pictures, so electric and overflowing with energy it's damn near exhausting.
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The ARTery
Rating: 1/5 --
The film is sloppy and ill-formed, its tone lurching drunkenly from turgid soap opera to soft-core porn, descending at times to low camp.
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Sacramento News & Review
...[A] tenaciously gripping film...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Lee is a powerful filmmaker who certainly knows how to have an impact on an audience, but those who survive his ministrations are likely to wonder if in this case the battle was worth the bruises.
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Los Angeles Times
Trouble is, the overlong narrative, however entertaining from minute to minute, is a mess.
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Time Out
Product Description:
SUMMER OF SAM, Spike Lee's sizzling interpretation of the summer of 1977 in New York City, when thermometers shattered and a serial killer terrorized the city, focuses on an Italian-American community in the Bronx--specifically, Dionna (Mira Sorvino) and Vinny (John Leguizamo), a couple whose marriage is threatened by Vinny's obsession with other women. After Vinny returns home one night to find a killer has murdered two local women, he promises to mend his cheating ways, albeit unsuccessfully. As the media exploits the murders and a blackout threatens to unleash anarchy on the city, its inhabitants begin to look for a scapegoat who will release them from the reign of terror created by the chilling figure known only as the Son of Sam (Michael Badalucco). Lee's ambitious film does more than re-create the events that unfolded during the summer of 1977; in addition to being an entertaining time capsule, it also deals graphically with the concept of the mob mentality.