A crime story with a twist: The homeless, paranoid schizophrenic squatting in a cave in NYC's Inwood Park isn't the victim or the killer he's the detective. Romulus "Rom" Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a promising, Juilliard-trained musician. But madness drove him onto the streets, where he spends his days scavenging and ranting at "Stuyvesant," the mysterious tormenter he's convinced is beaming damaging green rays at him from the Chrysler Building. So when Rom finds the frozen corpse of a street kid named Scotty (Sean MacMahon) in a tree outside his cave, his insistence that the young man was murdered falls on deaf ears. Even Rom's own daughter, polic...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins