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Synopsis: This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job." He knows it will be difficult to return to the Russian-immigrant community of his youth--in his eyes, we see anticipation of the inevitable emotional pain and psychic turmoil that seeing his forsaken family and estranged companions will bring him. To do his job, and try to maintain some semblence of sanity, he has had to wall off his humanity from even himself. Seeing his kid brother, who adores him, talking with his dying mother, who still loves him, and yes, arguing with his abusive father, begins to wreak havoc with his personal defenses. As his steely demeanor begins to dissolve, we are shown the soul of a hit-man crumbling away, piece by piece. Finally, all that he now allows himself to admit that he loves is agonizingly torn away from him and he is left with the ultimate punishment for his transgressions.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): James Gray
Production: Live Home Video
  4 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
R
Year:
1994
98 min
633 Views


Why do you force him

all the time?

Let's go. Let's go.

I don't.. I don't want to go.

We gotta go get this person.

What the f***

are you talking about?

Alla Shustervich.

She said she saw you.

She wants to see you.

I didn't tell her

where you are.

I said we'd pick her up.

What?

- Where are we going?

- 3rd and Brighton.

- Get in. Hurry up.

- Where are we going?

- We're gonna see a movie.

- My mom thinks I'm coming back early.

- How old are you?

- 22.

- When was the last time you went out?

- I don't know.

Get in.

- Pick a movie.

- What movie?

Look in the paper.

Just make sure it's in the city.

Can I smoke in here?

It's Freddy.

He's here.

- I heard him.

- Freddy is dead,

buried and consecrated.

We won, remember?

- He's coming back for us.

- Kincaid's right.

Fred Krueger's history.

- Come here.

- Joey!

- Thank God. I thought for a minute..

- What?

- Dragging us in here.

- Yeah, cut it out!

You're putting one serious dent

in my beauty sleep.

The pipes are cold.

The boiler is cold.

See for yourself.

- Good night, Reuben.

- Good night.

Good night.

So why do you wanna talk to me?

I don't know.

I didn't expect to go

to a movie and everything. I just..

Wanted to talk some more,

you know?

It don't make

no difference to me.

Then what are you doing here?

Did you kill

Boris Volkoff's son?

That's what you're here for now,

right, to shoot someone?

- That's why you left.

- I can go all over.

Except here.

You can't tell anybody

I'm here.

It's no big deal. Just don't go around

shooting your f***ing mouth off.

I can't go back

to Brighton right now.

What else can I say, you know?

How'd you know about my father?

I wanted to see you.

- Make sure you were okay.

- No, I mean, how'd you know?

I don't wanna talk anymore.

Gonna give me your number?

Can go out?

We'll go out this week.

You'll make a call.

Huh?

I don't know.

What?

I have my own phone.

Number's listed.

Does that hurt?

You know I can't afford it.

You just want your dress.

Boris could help.

You know he'd help me.

He helps everybody.

And I would never accept it.

- He could lend you the money.

- Mm-hmm.

You take something from him,

and then you keep taking.

You can never get away.

- You can.

- You can't.

It's too easy.

It's weak.

The weak are the killers

that come quietly.

And that's how they kill.

Like the tumor.

It's God punishing me.

I have to believe that,

because if I didn't,

I couldn't believe in anything.

You will always have your son.

My son.

I had two sons once.

I always tried to teach them.

I always tried to do my best.

I really played music..

I played Mozart for him

when we was five months old.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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