Title:
Little Odessa
Released: 1994
Genre: Drama /
Thriller
Runtime: 98 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Tagline:
Between good and evil and heaven and hell is...
Plot
Summary: 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.
Comments:
Chilled
me...literally! The thing I remember that most impressed
me about Little Odessa was how director James Gray
actually made me feel cold. There are a lot of exteriors
that show a frozen, snow covered New York, but the
whole thing is so wonderfully photographed that it
actually made me feel chilled. The story is above
average and Tim Roth is starting to run the risk of
stereotyping himself into these kinds of violent characters...but
this film will always remain one of my favorites because
the simple look of the film affected me.
Cast
overview:
Tim Roth .... Joshua Shapira
Edward Furlong .... Reuben Shapira
Moira Kelly .... Alla Shustervich
Vanessa Redgrave .... Irina Shapira
Paul Guilfoyle .... Boris Volkoff
Natalya Andrejchenko .... Natasha
Maximilian Schell .... Arkady Shapira
David Vadim .... Sasha
Mina Bern .... Grandma Tsilya
Boris McGiver .... Ivan
Mohammed Ghaffari .... Pahlevi
Mikhail Khumrov .... Yuri
Dmitry Preyers .... Victor
David Ross .... Anatoly
Ron Brice .... Man with one leg
Movie
scenes preview:
Scene #1
Scene
Description:
Moira Kelly having her nice breasts squeezed and sucked
on as a guy has sex with her in bed.
featured
actress:
