Summer of Sam [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production ; a Spike Lee Joint ; written by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, and Spike Lee ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 18283 | Touchstone Home VideoLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Burbank, Calif.] : Touchstone Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999]Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 078881818X
- 9780788818189
- Title on container: SO. 44S, summer of Sam
- SOS, summer of Sam
- Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown ; music, Terence Blanchard.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Summer o | Available | 33111006610683 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill again. Spike Lee's Summer of Sam deals in part with this crime spree, but it mostly looks back at the fearful impact of his crimes on New York's collective consciousness. Vinny and Dionna (John Leguizamo and Mira Sorvino) are an unhappy young married couple living in the Bronx; Vinny often cheats on Dionna but is wracked with guilt about it, while Dionna fears she lacks the looks or allure to hold onto a man. Ritchie (Adrien Brody) is a neighborhood kid turned punk rocker (complete with a fake British accent); he has a band and a girlfriend (Jennifer Esposito) but also makes money as an exotic dancer at a gay club. And Luigi (Ben Gazzara), a longtime leader of organized crime in the Bronx, is approached by the police, with whom he generally has a less cordial relationship, to help them find the killer, as the citizens of some neighborhoods barricade their streets in fear that he will strike there next. Meanwhile, a tortured psychopath named David Berkowitz (Michael Badalucco) seethes with rage in his gloomy apartment and receives messages from a demonic dog who commands him to kill and kill again. Spike Lee's first film without a primarily African-American cast (though bearing the unmistakable New York stamp that's one of his hallmarks), Summer of Sam was shown as part of the Directors Fortnight series at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
".44" is inside the "O" in container title.
Features: theatrical trailers.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Barry Alexander Brown ; music, Terence Blanchard.
John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony La Paglia, Bebe Neuwirth, Patti Lupone, Ben Gazzara, John Savage, Michael Badalucco.
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.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD, Widescreen format (aspect ratio: 1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
For private home use only.
English (5.1 surround) ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.