Oscar Isaac
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- Peter RiegertOscar Newman
- Catherine KeenerMary Dorman
- Carla QuevedoNay Noe
- Alfred MolinaHenry J. Spallone
- Natalie PaulDoreen Henderson
- Winona RyderVinni Restiano
- Ilfenesh HaderaCarmen Febles
- LaTanya Richardson JacksonNorma O'Neal
- Bob BalabanLeonard Sand
Jim BelushiAngelo Martinelli- Jon BernthalMichael Sussman
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Show Me a Hero: With Oscar Isaac, Natalie Paul, Carla Quevedo, Peter Riegert. Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.
- (12K)
- 2015-08-16
- Drama, History
- 60
Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor (1987–89) Nick Wasicsko.
A bitter dispute over federally mandated public housing divides Yonkers, N.Y., in the late 1980s in this six-part miniseries based on former New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin's nonfiction book.
- Paul Haggis
- 1
David Simon’s latest six-hour miniseries, Show Me a Hero, directed by Paul Haggis, was an important, incredible, fascinating, infuriating and sad account of a six-year period in the city of...
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
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Aug 13, 2015 · Based on the true story of the development of low-income housing in Yonkers, New York in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, HBO’s “Show Me a Hero” is the TV event of the Summer, a mini-series that plays like a great American novel or a lost Sidney Lumet movie.
