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R 1 hr 38 min May 19th, 1995 Drama, Crime. Long separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady ...
Feb 25, 2019 · Little Odessa (1994) [HD] - James GrayLittle Odessa is a 1995 American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray, in his directorial debut, and sta...
Aug 20, 2002 · `Little Odessa' is a different story. This debut film from Gray paints a bleak and grungy picture of the crime underbelly and the ways it leeches onto a particular family and tears them apart. Joshua, the black sheep of the family, has disappeared for some time and is working for the Russian mob.
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Dec 16, 2019 · There’s a movie named after it. Little Odessa was a dark 1994 drama about a family of Soviet Jews living in the area. It stars Tim Roth and Vanessa Redgrave. There’s also a play by Neil Simon called Brighton Beach Memoirs, which takes place in the neighborhood during the Great Depression.
Synopsis. Long separated from his Russian family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother ...
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Directed by James Gray • 1994 • United States. Starring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly. James Gray made his quietly stunning feature debut with this subtle and somber crime drama. Evocatively set against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s Russian immigrant community, LITTLE ODESSA follows ice-cool hitman Joshua (Tim Roth) as he returns to ...
LITTLE ODESSA is the tragic tale of the severely dysfunctional Shapira family. Compounding this problem, the Russian Mafia steps in to control the moves of each family member in a chess-like game yielding high fatalities. A poor attempt at "art" cinema, this violent and obscenity filled film falls short of any true creativity.
