Summer of Sam

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Summer of Sam
Image:Summer Of Sam (movie).jpg Promotion film poster
Directed by	Spike Lee
Written by	Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, Spike Lee
Starring	John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli, Saverio Guerra, Brian Tarantina
Music by	Terence Blanchard
Cinematography	Ellen Kuras
Editing by	Barry Alexander Brown
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	1999
Running time	142 min
Country	United States
Language	English, Italian
IMDb profile

Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Themes 3 Filming locations 4 See also 5 External links

Plot

It is the story of a group of people in New York City (particularly the Throgs Neck/Country Club section of The Bronx) in the summer of 1977, a time in which the headlines were dominated by the Son of Sam serial killer case. The film stars John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Imperioli (who co-wrote the screenplay), and Bebe Neuwirth.

While the Son of Sam is terrorizing New York City, fear-driven residents of a tight-knit Italian American neighborhood start pointing fingers at anyone who doesn't fit in the crowd as suspects. The movie focuses on a pair of young couples. John Leguizamo plays Vinny, an unfaithful hairdresser married to Dionna (played by Mira Sorvino) who works as a waitress. Adrien Brody plays Ritchie, a newly-turned punk who dates a woman named Ruby (Jennifer Esposito); Ritchie leads a secret life dancing, and selling himself for sex, at a gay club.

Slowly, the locals begin to turn their suspicions on Ritchie. They have no real reason; his flamboyant and strange lifestyle simply gets their attention.

Themes

The film investigates scapegoating and the tendency to identify misfits within a community with evil that falls upon it. Lee uses references to The Who to point out Richie's misfit status, and the band's music to provoke violent images through collages within the film.

Filming locations

The film was largely shot and set in the Country Club and Throgs Neck sections of the Bronx, Italian-American neighborhoods which David Berkowitz terrorized in 1977. With some Scenes filmed in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

See also

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