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Illtown

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Illtown (1996)

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Reviews Counted:11

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:5.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Dramas

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,... 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 Jersey Drive," "Laws of Gravity") in favor of drug-trip atmospherics and weighty religious allegory. Based on Terry Williams's "The Cocaine Kids." [More]

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

Starring: Michael Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam Trese, Kevin Corrigan, Angela Featherstone, Tony Danza, Isaac Hayes

Director: Nick Gomez

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

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Todd McCarthy
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Crap.

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09/13/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Pretentious.

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02/15/04
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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Will leave viewers grasping for a meaning.

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01/05/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
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Charles Taylor
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A rare--almost subversive--cinematic treatise on the modern gangsta genre

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