Summer of Sam

The Son of Sam murders provide the backdrop for Spike Lee’s story of two young men living in an Italian-American neighbourhood of the Bronx in summer, 1977. Stars John Leguizamo and Adrien Brody., Drama set in New York during the hot summer of 1977. While the Son of Sam continues his murder spree, suspicion falls on anyone out of the ordinary. As a hairdresser continues to cheat on his wife with any woman he meets, he soon finds that his neighbours believe an old friend of his – who has returned to the neighbourhood as a punk – is the Son of Sam., Scorching, often shocking tale of the summer of 1977 in New York., In New York 1977, a serial killer preying on couples in parked cars inflames the tensions in one boiling borough., In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York’s media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill again. Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam deals in part with this crime spree, but it mostly looks back at the fearful impact of his crimes on New York’s collective consciousness. Vinny and Dionna (John Leguizamo and Mira Sorvino) are an unhappy young married couple living in the Bronx; Vinny often cheats on Dionna but is wracked with guilt about it, while Dionna fears she lacks the looks or allure to hold onto a man. Ritchie (Adrien Brody) is a neighborhood kid turned punk rocker (complete with a fake British accent); he has a band and a girlfriend (Jennifer Esposito) but also makes money as an exotic dancer at a gay club. And Luigi (Ben Gazzara), a longtime leader of organized crime in the Bronx, is approached by the police, with whom he generally has a less cordial relationship, to help them find the killer, as the citizens of some neighborhoods barricade their streets in fear that he will strike there next. Meanwhile, a tortured psychopath named David Berkowitz (Michael Badalucco) seethes with rage in his gloomy apartment and receives messages from a demonic dog who commands him to kill and kill again. Spike Lee’s first film without a primarily African-American cast (though bearing the unmistakable New York stamp that’s one of his hallmarks), Summer of Sam was shown as part of the Directors Fortnight series at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival., Tensions boil over among a group of Bronx Italian-Americans as a serial killer terrorizes New York City during a heat wave in the summer of 1977., This sizzling story takes place in the summer of 1977 in New York, where thermometers shattered and tensions boiled over as a serial killer terrorized the city. The story focuses on a Bronx couplewhose marriage is threatened by the Son of Sam’s reign of terror and the husband’s obsession with other women.