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A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
Raymond Serra
- Gino
- (as Ray Serra)
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- TriviaThe period of principal photography on this picture was a production shoot in the American fall season of 1983 in New York City that ran for about twenty nights over four weeks in October that year.
- Goofs(at around 1h 19 mins) Shadow of camera visible.
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Movie story simple as your A B C + Spano
Alphabet City does have a cool style about it, with Spano, so good in this, mirroring a kind of younger Pacino (watch the way his eyes move in this) as 19 young street smart Johnny who controls the drug market for the big guys. But what AC scarcely makes up for in style, it lacks in it's prolonged and insufficient story. When asked by his boss to torch the building his parents reside, he's stuck between a rock and a hard place, literally, cause there's no way in hell, his folks are gonna split. He implores little sis (Jamie Gertz) to be the one to talk some sense into him, but like her parents will be, she's against it too. The movie is basically set over one night, with Johnny now wanting out, running back and forth, trying to figure a way out of this nightmare, first trying to collect his doe. You don't really have to be Einstein to figure out where the story goes from here. Yet still, with it's flashy appeal in a tame R rated movie, almost void or gore or bad language (I don't see how it earned this, like a few other movies of these 80's) this still manages to be an okay drama, on a bit of a flat running level. But honestly, this flick with some cool hip music, is worth watching, just for Spano's performance. Where the hell is this impressive 80's actor these days. Love Spano's boss's young floozy, Karen, in the red dress.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,035,585
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,172,292
- May 6, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $7,035,585
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