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Director: James DeMonaco
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From Time Out London
Give filmmaker and native son of Prince’s Bay James DeMonaco some credit; he puts all his heart into this absurd rob-the-mob yarn. Vincent D’Onofrio chews all available scenery as a mama-loving small-time crime boss (and amateur tree-sitter), Ethan Hawke needs cash for a brain-boosting fertility procedure on his wife, and Seymour Cassel is his friend, the kindly deaf-mute salumeria butcher. That the plot suddenly shuffles the chronology—part of a post-Tarantino eye for flamboyant detail that’s played for comedy and pathos—makes it feel like a new, worse movie starts halfway through. 'Staten Island' is not without surprises—nor is it any good.Author: Nicholas Rapold
Time Out London Issue 2065: 18-24 March, 2010
Cast & crew
Director: James DeMonaco
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 96 mins
UK Release: Mar 19 2010
US Release: Nov 20 2009
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