Movie
1999
Summer of Sam is a 1999 American historical crime drama film directed and co-produced by Spike Lee, co-written by Lee, Michael Imperioli, and Victor Colicchio, and starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, and Mira Sorvino, with Michael Rispoli, Bebe Neuwirth, Patti LuPone, Anthony LaPaglia, and Ben Gazzara appear in supporting roles. Set in the Bronx in 1977, the film follows a group of residents in an…
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There are many ways to reconstruct history on film. Some film-makers try to give detailed and accurate depictions of the past events. Some film-makers use history only as background for fictional stories. Some film-makers try to make compromise between those two approaches. Spike Lee tried to make one such compromise in his 1999 drama *Summer of Sam*. The film starts with the prologue by Jimmy Breslin, "New York Dai…More
