Country: USA
Year: 1991
Duration: 130'


It is a film about urban America in 1990, reflected in Hudson City a decaying New Jersey metropolis. Joe, a successful contractor with strong ties to City Hall, has spent years building a powerful empire based on "Old World" principles - "you scratch my back, I scratch yours". His son, Nick, is a lost soul who escapes the tedium of his noeffort job working for his father with alcohol, drugs and petty crime with his friends. While Nick desperately wants to find a way out of the system, Wynn, a black city councilman, is trying to find a way in. Honest, idealistic, but kept on the edges of power Wynn is struggling to build a contistuency. But his people think he's sold out or merely want him to start delivering from his position of patronage. When Nick walks off his job in anger his actions bring about a chain of events that ignites the personal and racial tensions smoldering in Hudson City.

Cast

& Credits

Director, screenplay and editor: John Sayles.
Director of photography: Robert Richardson.
Art director: Chas B. Plummer.
Music: Mason Daring.
Sound: Scott Breindel.
Cast and characters: Vincent Spano (Nick), Stephen Mendillo (Yoyo), Tony Lo Bianco (Joe), Joe Morton (Wynn), Charle Yanko (Stavros), Jace Alexzander (Bobby), Tod Graff (Zip), Scott Tiler (Vinnie), John Sayles (Carl), Frankie Faison (Levonne), Gloria Foster (Jeanette).
Director of Production: John Sloss, Harold Webb.
Production company: Esperanza Production.
Foreign sales agent: The Samuel Goldwin Company, 10123 Santa Monica Blvd. 90067 Los Angeles, California, USA, tel. 213-5522255.
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