After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn’t going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he’s going to give away the money he’ll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren’t the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.
STARRING
Christopher Walken
David Caruso
Laurence Fishburne
Victor Argo
Wesley Snipes
Janet Julian
Joey Chin
Giancarlo Esposito
Paul Calderon
Steve Buscemi
WRITER
Nicholas St.John
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bojan Bazelli
SOUND
Drew Kunin
MUSIC
Joe Delia
FILM EDITING
Anthony Redman
PRODUCTION
The Rank Organisation
Augusto Carminito
Reteitalia
Scena Inernational
DISTRIBUTION
Carlotta Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Abel Ferrara
With a reputation as a director of controversial cinema,
ABEL FERRARA moves into his fourth decade of filmmaking with continued work in the US as well as European projects. Recent successes include Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe, and Welcome to NY, starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. Born in the Bronx in 1951, Ferrara started on Super 8 in his teens in upstate New York with writers Nicholas St. John and John McIntyre. His first features were Driller Killer and Ms. 45 in the late 70s. The 80s and 90s led to a cult reputation with legendary films like The King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction and The Funeral. Ferrara just completed the principal photography of his next feature Siberia with Willem Dafoe.
FILMOGRAPHY
1979 DRILLER KILLER
1981 Ms. 45
1984 FEAR CITY
1987 China Girl
1990 The King of New York
1992 Bad Lieutenant
1993 Body Snatchers
1993 Dangerous Game
1995 The Addiction
1996 The Funeral
1997 The Blackout
1998 New Rose Hotel
2001 R XMas
2005 Mary
2007 Go Go Tales
2008 Chelsea on the Rocks documentary
2009 Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
2011 4:44 – Last Day on Earth
2014 Pasolini
2014 Welcome to New York
2017 Piazza Vittorio documentary
2017 Alive in France documentary
2019 Tommaso
2019 The Projectionist documentary