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Illtown (1996)
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... 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]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam Trese, Kevin Corrigan, Angela Featherstone
Composer: Brian Keane
Producer: David L. Bushell
Screenwriter: Nick Gomez
Story: Terry Williams
Reviews
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
A rare--almost subversive--cinematic treatise on the modern gangsta genre


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