Summer of Sam
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Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee.
[edit] Plot
It is the story of a group of people in New York City (particularly the Throgs Neck/Country Club section of The Bronx) in the summer of 1977, a time in which the headlines were dominated by the Son of Sam serial killer case. The film stars John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Imperioli (who co-wrote the screenplay), and Bebe Neuwirth.
While the Son of Sam is terrorizing New York City, fear-driven residents of a tight-knit Italian American neighborhood start pointing fingers at anyone who doesn't fit in the crowd as suspects. The movie focuses on a pair of young couples. John Leguizamo plays Vinny, an unfaithful hairdresser married to Dionna (played by Mira Sorvino) who works as a waitress. Ritchie (Adrien Brody) plays a newly-turned punk who dates a woman named Ruby (Jennifer Esposito); Ritchie leads a secret life dancing, and selling himself for sex, at a gay club.
Slowly, the locals begin to turn their suspicions on Ritchie. They have no real reason; his flamboyant and strange lifestyle gets their attention.
[edit] Filming locations
The film was largely shot and set in the Country Club and Throgs Neck sections of the Bronx, Italian-American neighborhoods which David Berkowitz terrorized in 1977.
[edit] External links
- Summer of Sam at the Internet Movie Database
- Summer of Sam at Rotten Tomatoes
- Summer of Sam at Box Office Mojo
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