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Little Odessa
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Overview

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Director:

James Gray

Writer:

James Gray (writer)

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Release Date:

19 May 1995 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama more

Tagline:

Between good and evil and heaven and hell is... more

Plot:

This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer... more | add synopsis

Awards:

3 wins & 5 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(4 articles)

Two Lovers Review
 (From Twitch. 12 February 2009, 9:11 PM, PST)

Greatness in the Making: Director James Gray
 (From Cinematical. 12 February 2009, 10:02 AM, PST)

User Comments:

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tim Roth ... Joshua Shapira

Edward Furlong ... Reuben Shapira

Moira Kelly ... Alla Shustervich

Vanessa Redgrave ... Irina Shapira
Paul Guilfoyle ... Boris Volkoff
Natalya Andreychenko ... Natasha
Maximilian Schell ... Arkady Shapira

David Vadim ... Sasha
Mina Bern ... Grandma Tsilya

Boris McGiver ... Ivan
Mohammed Ghaffari ... Pahlevi

Michael Khmurov ... Yuri
Dmitry Preyers ... Victor
David Ross ... Anatoly
Ron Brice ... Man with one leg
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Additional Details

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

It took director James Gray two years to get the financing in place to make _Little Odessa (1994)_. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the scenes where Mr. Schell is supposedly speaking Russian, his language is unintelligible beyond the simplest words. more

Quotes:

Joshua Shapira: [Joshua is about to execute Pahlevi] Hey, do you believe in God?
Pahlevi: [sobbing] Yes!
Joshua Shapira: Good. We'll wait ten seconds and see if he comes to save you.
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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Best I've seen Roth do, 9 March 2007
7/10
Author: smatysia (feldene@comcast.net) from Houston

I enjoyed the movie. Tim Roth, who is apparently British, sounded to me (a Texan) as a perfect second-generation Russian Jew. He was so coldly efficient in this character that I did not even recognize him as the hapless robber in Pulp Fiction. Kudos also to Moira Kelly, Edward Furlong, and Maximilian Schell. Good direction and photography. The use of the Russian choral music throughout set the mood on medium-creepy, even when that was the only clue. I've never been to Brighton Beach, or even Brooklyn, but the film really brought home the gritty reality of that immigrant community. (I really just mean the day-to-day atmosphere of the place, not the mobster story plastered on it.) Worth checking out if you don't mind a slower, more cerebral sort of hit man movie.

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