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'R Xmas (2001)
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Abel Ferrara
directed and co-wrote this story set in New York City in 1993, before Mayor Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized crusade against street crime put a dent in semi-public drug dealing in the city. It's a few days before Christmas, and a Latin American couple living on the city's Upper East Side (Lillo Brancato Jr. and
Drea de Matteo
) are watching their daughter (Lisa Valens) perform in her school's holiday pageant. Afterward, the couple drop the child off with a babysitter and set out to run some errands. They have two items on their agenda: get their daughter the doll she's been asking for (a nearly impossible task, since the toy has become the must-have item of the season), then head to their work space uptown, where they prepare and package heroin for street distribution. While the wife has her qualms about the ethics of drug dealing, both she and her husband know there's plenty of money to be made in heroin -- more than most Hispanic immigrants could make working legitimate jobs in New York -- and the business has been highly lucrative for them. The couple discovers one of their lower-level dealers may be talking to the police, but they soon have a bigger problem to deal with when the husband is lured to the Bronx by a fence who can get him the toy he's been looking for. The husband finds he's been lured into a trap, and a kidnapper (
Ice-T
) gives the wife less than a half hour to collect and pay a huge ransom, or her husband will be killed. As in Ferrara's
Bad Lieutenant
, the audience never learns the names of most of the major characters in 'R Xmas; also like
Bad Lieutenant
(as well as King of New York and The New Rose Hotel), Ferrara invited pioneering gangster rapper Schooly-D to contribute to the film's score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Cast
Victor Argo
Louie
Lillo Brancato
The Husband
Ice-T
Kidnapper
Drea de Matteo
The Wife
Production Crew
Ken Kelsch
Cinematographer
Frank De Curtis
Co-producer
Schoolly D
Composer (Music Score)
Abel Ferrara
Director
Bill Pankow
Editor
Suzanne Pillsbury
Editor
Vebe Borge
First Assistant Director
Pierre Kalfon
Producer
Frank De Curtis
Production Designer
Abel Ferrara
Screenwriter
Cassandra DeJesus
Short Story Author
Cassandra DeJesus
Short Story Author
Jeff Pullman
Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 2001
Runtime: 83
Country: France
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Crime
Thriller
Color type
DuArt color
Sound
Dolby Digital
Release
by Canal Plus
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