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Illtown (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 7 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Synopsis: Affable South Florida smack dealer Dante tries to balance his desires for home and family with his business--and with a vengeance-wreaking former associate back from the Big House. A moody, slow-paced, and surreal effort that eschews the sparseness of Gomez's earlier crime sagas ("New... [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Michael Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam Trese, Kevin Corrigan, Angela Featherstone

Director: Nick Gomez
Composer: Brian Keane
Producer: David L. Bushell
Screenwriter: Nick Gomez
Story: Terry Williams

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 7, 1999

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Crap.

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09/13/07

Cole Smithey

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In his third, most experimental film, Gomez again shows attraction to outcasts and criminals, but unlike LLaws of Gravity, here his haunting look at a Miami drug dealing circle is staged in a dreamlike hallucinatory manner, influenced by Kitano and others

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12/08/06

Emanuel Levy

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07/06/05

Emanuel Levy

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Pretentious.

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02/15/04

Dennis Schwartz

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01/05/04

Michael Dequina

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11/13/03

Frank Swietek

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07/09/03

Michael Szymanski

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05/20/03

Janet Maslin

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11/15/02

Brian J. Arthurs

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11/06/02

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Leslie Rigoulot

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02/14/01

Kevin Thomas

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Brian Webster

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01/01/00

Charles Taylor

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A rare--almost subversive--cinematic treatise on the modern gangsta genre

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Glenn Slavin

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Harvey S. Karten

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