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- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 22 m
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 22 m
Summary An Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx is terrorized during David Berkowitz's (aka Son of Sam) 1977 murder spree.
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, Spike Lee
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 22 m
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 22 m
Summer of Sam
67
1.3
Summary An Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx is terrorized during David Berkowitz's (aka Son of Sam) 1977 murder spree.
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, Spike Lee
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
67
69% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
31% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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This is a terrific movie: jolting, savage, horrifically funny, nightmarishly exciting but also brainy and compassionate.
Lee gives us cross-section of characters, almost none of whom escape the summer unchanged.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 118 User Ratings
1.3
11% Positive
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User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 118 User Ratings
1.3
11% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
3% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
86% Negative
102 Ratings
102 Ratings
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It is a dark, violent, sexually explicit motion picture that will surely offend timid viewers.
A tabloid slice of tabloid life, ragged, vivid, awkward and punchy all at once.
It's a kaleidoscope of ideas that range from exciting to silly and gaudy.
Spike Lee is a virtuoso filmmaker, a wizard at selling a sequence, but he'll never make an entirely coherent movie until he learns to go deeper into his subjects instead of wider with them.
If there's any moral to this sorry story, perhaps Lee's stealth-message is it: Even when it's not about race, it is.
Awards
Black Reel Awards
• 2 Nominations
ALMA Awards
• 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
