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Illtown (1996)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:6

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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Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
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Crap.

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Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Pretentious.

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Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie 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

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

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