Staten Island (film)

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Staten Island
Directed by James DeMonaco
Produced by Luc Besson
Sebastien Lemercier
D. Ramanaidu
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Written by James DeMonaco
Starring Ethan Hawke
Vincent D'Onofrio
Seymour Cassel
Cinematography Chris Norr
Distributed by EuropaCorp
Release dates
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Running time
96 minutes
Country France
United States
Language English

Staten Island (also titled Little New York ) is a 2009 crime film written and directed by James DeMonaco in his directorial debut. It starred Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Seymour Cassel as three Staten Islanders whose lives intersected through a crime. Following a very limited theatrical run in New York, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in December 2009.

Plot

A Staten Island mob boss Parmie (D'Onofrio) was robbed by a septic tank cleaner Sully (Hawke) who had a pal Jasper (Cassel), a deaf deli employee moonlighting as a corpse chopper for Parmie.

Cast

Critical reception

The film received mixed to average reviews from critics.[1] The New York Times critic praised the director DeMonaco for "adroitly weaving violence, absurdity and sentiment, even an environmental consciousness, into a modest, appealing fable",[2] while the reviewer of The New York Daily News blamed him for "wasting a strong cast in silly roles".[3]

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