10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1992
Laws Of Gravity
by Nick Gomez
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Duration: 100'
Jimmy and Jon are a pair of restless petty thieves roaming the streets of Brooklyn looking for a quick way to make a buck. Jimmy is content with his cavalier life of shoplifting. Jon, his volatile partner in crime, is evading the police and the courts on an outstanding theft charge and soon finds his relationships with Jimmy and his girlfriend Celia are deteriorating. When an old friend, Frankie, arrives on the scene with a stolen car and a load of illegal handguns for sale, Jimmy and Jon see a profitable but dangerous way to make some fast cash. The guns and the task of selling them becomes a focal point for Jimmy, Jon and Frankie. After a domestic dispute with Celia the police corner Jon and take him to the custody. With his best friends bail set at $1,200, Jimmy feels trapped. Of course he doesn't have that kind of money and he can't get it from his friends. Jimmy's only alternative is to sell Frankie's guns. Frankie goes to Jimmy's house looking for his merchandise but he finds it missing. Then Frankie quarrels violently with Denise (Jimmy's wife) and Celia. Jimmy and Jon meet him at Bobby's Place: the situations is making worse. Jon smashes a bottle over Frankie's head. The crowd tries to keep them apart, but shots are fired and screams fill the night air.
Biography
film director
Nick Gomez
Born in Somerville (Massachusetts) in 1963, Nick Gomez spent his own adolescence far from home, completing his high school studies in London, where he lived for one year. Having moved to Boston, he first attended the University of Massachusetts going on later to graduate from the State University of New York, in Purchase, where he met the producer Bob Gosse and the director Hal Hartley, for whom he edited the feature film Trust. In 1992 he directed his first feature film, the very low budget Laws of Gravity, which obtained five nomination for the Independent Spirit Award.
FILMOGRAFIA
No Picnic (cm, 1988), Wild Kingdom (cm, 1991), Laws of Gravity (1992), New Jersey Drive (1994), Illtown (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Nick Gomez.
Director of photography: Jean de Segonzac.
Art director: Monica Bretherton.
Editor: Tom McArdle.
Music: eseguita da The Poor Righteous Teachers, RunD.M.C., 2nd Il None, Derrick lrie, Nardo Ranks/Junior Demus and Nemisis.
Sound: Jeff Pullman, Jean Gilliland.
Cast and characters: Peter Greene (Jimmy), Edie Falco (Denise), Adam Trese (Jon), Arabella Field (Celia), Paul Schulze (Frankie), Tony Fernandez (Tommy), James McCauley (Kenny), Anibal Lierras (Ray).
Director of Production: Larry Meistrich.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: World Films, Inc., 8920 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200, Log Angeles, California 90069, USA, tel. 310 2885334, fax 3102764582.
Director of photography: Jean de Segonzac.
Art director: Monica Bretherton.
Editor: Tom McArdle.
Music: eseguita da The Poor Righteous Teachers, RunD.M.C., 2nd Il None, Derrick lrie, Nardo Ranks/Junior Demus and Nemisis.
Sound: Jeff Pullman, Jean Gilliland.
Cast and characters: Peter Greene (Jimmy), Edie Falco (Denise), Adam Trese (Jon), Arabella Field (Celia), Paul Schulze (Frankie), Tony Fernandez (Tommy), James McCauley (Kenny), Anibal Lierras (Ray).
Director of Production: Larry Meistrich.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: World Films, Inc., 8920 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200, Log Angeles, California 90069, USA, tel. 310 2885334, fax 3102764582.
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