Amateurish even by the scrappy standards of ultra-low-budget independent filmmaking, first-time feature director Steve Szlarski's contribution to the DEATH WISH school of righteous vengeance is nevertheless surprisingly watchable. Soon after Dad (Joseph Minutillo) gambles away the family fortune on bad investments and hits the road, teenage James (Thomas Brandise) and his mother (Molly Castelloe) are forced leave the affluent Long Island suburb of Smithhaven for the dicier environs of South Hills, the kind of town where gangs use panty-waists like James for initiation fodder. Furious at his father but ever-respectful of authority, James tries to settle into his new s...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins