Based on the novel by Manhattan writer Joel Rose which in turn took it's title from a classic Dead Kennedy's song, this dark satire of urban life is set in the early 1980s, back when an as yet ungentrified Lower East Side was still a mad, bad and often very dangerous place to find yourself living. After agreeing to wed Annabelle (Clara Bellar), an opportunistic French stripper who proposes marriage for "political reasons," nebbishy newsagent Joe Pelta (David Krumholtz) next agrees to move into a much bigger apartment in a terribly run-down East Village building when Annabelle announces she's pregnant. Savoring the irony that he'll be starting his family on the same b...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins