Little Odessa
1994 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job." He knows it will be difficult to return to the Russian-immigrant community of his youth--in his eyes, we see anticipation of the inevitable emotional pain and psychic turmoil that seeing his forsaken family and estranged companions will bring him. To do his job, and try to maintain some semblence of sanity, he has had to wall off his humanity from even himself. Seeing his kid brother, who adores him, talking with his dying mother, who still loves him, and yes, arguing with his abusive father, begins to wreak havoc with his personal defenses. As his steely demeanor begins to dissolve, we are shown the soul of a hit-man crumbling away, piece by piece.
Direction James Gray
Cast Tim Roth · Edward Furlong · Moira Kelly · Vanessa Redgrave · Maximilian Schell · Paul Guilfoyle · Natalya Andreychenko · Mina Bern · Michael Khmurov · David Vadim · Mohammed Ghaffari · Gene Ruffini · Ron Brice · Boris McGiver
Soundtrack Dana Sano
Screenplay James Gray
Cinematography Tom Richmond
Original title Little Odessa
6.5
2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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