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Summer of Sam | 
| Actors: Michael Badalucco, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Ken Garito, Ben Gazzara
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 13427
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 142 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 717951004734
ISBN: 078881818X
UPC: 717951004734
EAN: 9780788818189
ASIN: B00002RAO2
Theatrical Release Date: July 2, 1999
Release Date: December 21, 1999
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It's important to note that Spike Lee's drama is not titled Son of Sam. Summer of Sam doesn't chronicle the killer as much as the times: the blistering hot summer of 1977 when the Big Apple's psyche was taken hostage by the lone gunman. We spot the killer (Michael Badalucco) in his mad ramblings, but the film centers on two friends from the Bronx: Vinny and Ritchie (John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody). Vinny and his wife, Dionna (Mira Sorvino), bury a bad marriage (he cheats at a drop of a hat) in the disco halls of the area. Ritchie returns to the neighborhood sporting punk hair, punk clothes, and a British accent that immediately infuriates the neighborhood boys oozing far too much testosterone. Cops, local mob leaders, and the guys on the street all have ideas who the killer is; neighborhood loners to Reggie Jackson (in the midst of World Series heroism) are on their misguided lists of suspects. When the film looks at how the citizens faced the fearful times, Lee scores with his energetic camerawork and pop soundtrack. Yet the film is banal in its domestic dramatics. The film takes large detours into Vinny's home sex life (stagnant) and Ritchie's extracurricular activities. One of the marriage arguments--though real and well acted--is so long and cliche-ridden you wonder if someone fell asleep in the editing booth. Add the point-blank killings and nonstop vulgarity and you have Lee's most unpleasant film. --Doug Thomas
Product Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-AUG-2003
Media Type: DVD
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summer of sam April 2, 2009
Soloman V. Hillman (Eufaula, Alabama)
It was an ok movie. Had been awhile since I have seen it. Not as good as i remember it but ok nonetheless. The best thing that I liked about this movies was the music. When i watched this movie years ago i went out and bought the soundtrack. If ur a fan of old-school 70's disco music pick up the soundtrack. I promise that you will enjoy. As far as the movie its give or take. Has a few good scenes but its not my favorite Spike Lee movie but a good effort.
 underappreciated but very interesting February 9, 2009
N. Chandran
i think most people are turned off this movie primarily because it is not what they expected to see. if you see this movie expecting say 'silence of the lambs' or 'seven' then you are bound to be disappointed. rather if you see this movie as a typical spike lee movie which abounds in study of conflicts in emotions/cultures/life etc you will be rewarded. the movie is not about the serial killer 'son of sam' - rather it is about the lives of a bunch of people who lived during that time and were affected in peripheral ways due to the killings. this movie deals with multiple issues mostly psychological - marital woes, forbidden lust, infidelity, moral decay, societal paranoia, fear/prejudice of the unusual etc. it is a great and interesting movie. amidst all this is a really funny scene too - of 'mister' black dog appearing and commanding the son of sam to kill and kill and kill. to which he ofcourse bows in reverence : 'yes master'!
 One of the WORST,most worthless films ever made January 4, 2009
EPshots@yahoo.com (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A hateful, unwatchable abortion of a movie--Who green-lighted this piece of trash and WHY? Awful story, script, direction, characters--I think this was the only time I was actually made ILL by how awful a film was--I would have walked out, but I was in the company of other "victims" at the theatre and didn't feel like HITCHIKING, or I would have! Spike Lee owes the patrons of this miserable waste of filmstock a refund (and punitive damages) A disgrace to Hollywood and even the decade of the 70's--one thing worse than sitting through this film would have been getting shot by David Berkowitz--S-U-C-K-S! Spikey went on to make other horrible films like BAMBOOZLED. Someone take his movie camera away!!
Weird December 16, 2008
The Cat Lady (Manchester, NJ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie is not what I expected it to be. Nope, not at all.
A Spike Lee Junk August 24, 2008
Joseph Mondano (New York City)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Spike Lee retreads the same old thing - a film with stereotypical Black and Italian-American "types" in "Summer of Sam" as he often does in most of his work (if you can call it that) and that's all you get from this film.
The film sports an all star cast, but aside from Adrian Brody's role, the film falls flat. Lee just is not using his cast as anything more than window dressing for a bad script.
Indeed one feels the paranoia of that summer, however it's way overdone. It would be great from a high school musical but this is supposed to be a feature film. Subtlety is not Mr. Lee's strong suit and it's worn quite thin in this wanna be nostalgia trip. Remove the cursing and you have no sound except for a good sound track - great music. The camera shots are everywhere and no where.
Note too, when the "bad men" enter CBBGs, the band on stage was a 1990s band who were not around in 1977. Who makes a mistake like this? A person whose ego is bigger than his research department.
This movie was painful to watch and the DVD is hardly worth renting much less purchasing.
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