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List Price: $14.99Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $5.00 (33%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SORVINO,MIRA
EAN: 9780788818189
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078881818X
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 21, 1999
Running Time: 142 minutes
Sales Rank: 11991
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1999
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-AUG-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
It's important to note that Spike Lee's drama is not titled Son of Sam. Summer of Sam doesn't chronicle the killer as much as the times: the blistering hot summer of 1977 when the Big Apple's psyche was taken hostage by the lone gunman. We spot the killer (Michael Badalucco) in his mad ramblings, but the film centers on two friends from the Bronx: Vinny and Ritchie (John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody). Vinny and his wife, Dionna (Mira Sorvino), bury a bad marriage (he cheats at a drop of a hat) in the disco halls of the area. Ritchie returns to the neighborhood sporting punk hair, punk clothes, and a British accent that immediately infuriates the neighborhood boys oozing far too much testosterone. Cops, local mob leaders, and the guys on the street all have ideas who the killer is; neighborhood loners to Reggie Jackson (in the midst of World Series heroism) are on their misguided lists of suspects. When the film looks at how the citizens faced the fearful times, Lee scores with his energetic camerawork and pop soundtrack. Yet the film is banal in its domestic dramatics. The film takes large detours into Vinny's home sex life (stagnant) and Ritchie's extracurricular activities. One of the marriage arguments--though real and well acted--is so long and cliché-ridden you wonder if someone fell asleep in the editing booth. Add the point-blank killings and nonstop vulgarity and you have Lee's most unpleasant film. --Doug Thomas
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Spike Lee retreads the same old thing - a film with stereotypical Black and Italian-American "types" in "Summer of Sam" as he often does in most of his work (if you can call it that) and that's all you get from this film.
The film sports an all star cast, but aside from Adrian Brody's role, the film falls flat. Lee just is not using his cast as anything more than window dressing for a bad script.
Indeed one feels the paranoia of that summer, however it's way overdone. It ... Read More
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This film, for the most part is great, everything except for the scene that involves an orgy. For the most part though, the cast and crew did great work, and it should of been a hit. Great DVD to own.
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Spike Lee gets the feel and the look of the late 70s down pat, but this movie ultimately fails as either a thriller or a slice-of-life vignette. To be fair to Spike Lee, he does have a good eye for New York details, and the people in this film are recognizable as local types, but I've yet to come across the White neighborhood here that was entirely made up of druggies, whores, perverts, adulterers, gangsters, rent-boys and generic sub-moronic dirtbags, as Spike Lee depicts the Italians of Throgs Neck. ... Read More
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I can see where Spike Lee may have been trying to mimic the gritty masterpiece that was David Fincher's `Se7en' but he fails in many areas to capture anything reminiscent of the preceding film. `Summer of Sam' focuses too little on the menacing killer and too much on a group of people we could care less about. What made `Se7en' so brilliant was that while you never saw the killer except in minor scenes you always felt his presence. Here you never feel anything related to the killer. I feel bad for ... Read More
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I admire Spike Lee's talents. He has made some of the best, yes best, American films of the past few decades. "Do The Right Thing" was seminal. "Crooklyn" was never talked about much because it was not controversial. But it was one of the finest films depicting late 20th century American families, regardless of race. The recent "Inside Man" was a great caper. "Clockers' and "25th Day" were well-made Spike Joints.
Like many talented artists with a viewpoint, Spike has been controversial to say ... Read More
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