Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 90'
John Leguizamo "explodes" onto the stage of the Cort Theater in New York to present what he calls a "demi-semi-quasi-pseudo-autobiographical comedy". The show tells of the years of Leguizamo's youth in different buildings in lower middle-class Jackson Heights, Queens. These years were marked by many humiliations inflicted by the neighbors, by his mother, by his little brother, and by his father, whom he ends up dedicating the show to. Leguizamo enters and exits his characters with perfect ease, always ending up returning to his voice as a first-person narrator.
Biography
film director
Spike Lee
(USA), born in Atlanta and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Spike Lee is one of the most influential American filmmakers of recent decades, known for his powerful exploration of Black identity and culture. His acclaimed works include Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), 25th Hour (2003), Inside Man (2005), and BlacKkKlansman (2018), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has frequently collaborated with Denzel Washington, directing him in five films, including the forthcoming Highest to Lowest (2025). Lee has also directed documentaries for HBO and ESPN, such as When the Levees Broke (2006), as well as commercials for Nike. He currently serves as a professor at New York University.
FILMOGRAFIA
Horn of Plenty: Saturday Night Live (cm, tv, 1986), She's Gotta Have It (Lola Darling, 1986), School Daze (Aule turbolente, 1988), Do the Right Thing (Fa' la cosa giusta, 1989), Five One-Minute Spots (cm, tv, 1989), Mo' Better Blues (id., 1990), Jungle Fever (id., 1991), Iron Mike Tyson (cm, tv, 1991), Malcom X (id., 1992), Crooklyn (id., 1994), Clockers (id., 1995), Real Sports "John Thompson" Coach (cm, tv, 1995), Girl 6 (Girl 6 - Sesso in linea, 1996), Portrait of Tommy Hilfiger (cm, 1996), Get on the Bus (Bus (In viaggio) , 1997), Dance (cm, tv, 1997), Computer Wiz (cm, tv, 1997), The Craft of Acting (cm, tv, 1997), 4 Little Girls (doc., tv, 1997), He Got Game (1998), John Leguizamo's Freak (tv, 1998), Summer of Sam (S.O.S. Summer of Sam - Panico a New York, 1999), Bamboozled (Bamboozled, 2000), 25th Hour (La 25ª ora, 2002), She Hate Me (Lei mi odia, 2004), Inside Man (Inside Man, 2006), Miracle at St. Anna (Miracolo a Sant'Anna, 2008), Red Hook Summer (Red Hook Summer, 2012), Oldboy (Oldboy, 2013), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Il sangue di Cristo, 2014), Chi-Raq (Chi-Raq, 2015), BlacKkKlansman (BlacKkKlansman, 2018), Da 5 Bloods (Da 5 Bloods - Come fratelli, 2020), Highest 2 Lowest (Highest 2 Lowest, 2025).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Spike Lee.
Plot: John Leguizamo.
Director of photography: Malik Sayeed.
Art director: Douglas Stein.
Sound: Richard Fitzgerald.
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown.
Cast: John Leguizamo.
Producer: Dennis Biggs.
Production company: HBO, 2094 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA, tel. +1-310-2019200, fax +1-310-2019445. Co-production: Lower East Side Films. Vendita all'estero e distribuzione: HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA, tel. +1-212-5121511, fax +1-212-5125698, e-mail doug.schwalbe@hbo.com.
Plot: John Leguizamo.
Director of photography: Malik Sayeed.
Art director: Douglas Stein.
Sound: Richard Fitzgerald.
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown.
Cast: John Leguizamo.
Producer: Dennis Biggs.
Production company: HBO, 2094 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA, tel. +1-310-2019200, fax +1-310-2019445. Co-production: Lower East Side Films. Vendita all'estero e distribuzione: HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA, tel. +1-212-5121511, fax +1-212-5125698, e-mail doug.schwalbe@hbo.com.
