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Little Odessa

1994

James Gray

Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave ...

6.6

2,170

Thriller 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Little Odessa is an extremely complex motion picture, layered with powerful themes and fascinating characters."
		Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"Little Odessa might have been a great film. Instead, it is an exceptionally good one, the kind that suggests the start of a powerful career."
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Everyone is convincingly miserable, and audiences are likely to follow suit."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Little Odessa immediately etches a firm place on the map for 25-year-old New York newcomer James Gray"
		Steve Davis Austin Chronicle	"Like something by Tolstoy or Dostoyevski, but -- of course -- on a much smaller, less ambitious scale, it is a work that weighs on your mind long after you leave it"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It seemed to me that the movie had raised too many serious issues to turn into a visual exercise at the end"

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