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Off-the-wall humor, casual or premeditated violence, and larger-than-life characters are featured in this Paul Morrisey film about drugs and two street gangs in "Alphabet City," the lower east side of New York (Avenues A, B, and C). When the flamboyant and often abrasive Rita (Marilia Pera) and her dim-witted but streetwise son Thiago (Richard Ulacia) arrive in New York from Brazil, she maternally "adopts" the teens who live in a run-down apartment as her own and then organizes them into a gang whose first job is to intercept a shipment of drugs intended for a rival Puerto Rican group. This act sets off a gang war when the Puerto Ricans retaliate by killing one of Rita's teens. As the fighting escalates, it becomes more difficult to decipher the real attitude of director Paul Morrissey: are these serious takes from real life or are they exaggerated to achieve a decidedly black humor? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Starring:: Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia, (more)

Director(s):: Paul Morrissey

Format(s):: DVD
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	Catherine M.

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OK, this is a really bad movie, except for one thing. It was filmed entirely on location in the Lower East Side, Alphabet City. To see NYC in that time period is worth the viewing. BUt it is a good example of do it yourself Lower East Side movie making that people were doing in those days. By the end, you sort of like the stereotypical characters, it is very kitsch, and again, if you want to know what NYC lower east side was like back in the day, this is a great geographical example. It is almost jurassic in this day and age.

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