'R Xmas
Summary:
Cult favorite Abel Ferrara directed and co-wrote this story set in New York City in 1993, before Mayor Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized crusade against street crime put a dent in semi-public drug dealing in the city. It's a few days before Christmas, and a Latin American couple living on the city's Upper East Side (Lillo Brancato Jr. and Drea de Matteo) are watching their daug... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Drea de Matteo - (The Wife)
Lillo Brancato Jr. - (The Husband)
Ice-T - (Kidnapper)
Victor Argo - (Louie)
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Review:
Abel Ferrara's 'R Xmas somehow adds up to more than the sum of its script and performances. The intricately mundane workings of the drug trade make for fascinating cinema, and Ferrara's conflation of rabid, upper-class consumerism with narcotics dealing is pointed and well wrought. The Christmas setting of the film adds an effectively blun... Continue >>
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