The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them
Acting
Turturro and Badalucco as bickering bookies—pure Staten Island energy.
Writing
DeVizia's dialogue crackles with authentic loser philosophy.
Director
William DeVizia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
William DeVizia never directed another feature; this was his sole theatrical release before disappearing into TV work.
Shot during the peak of '90s American indie crime cinema, it directly channels the desperation of early Abel Ferrara but with more heart. The Staten Island locations are authentic—DeVizia grew up there.
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