Twelve years after his shattering debut
Combat Shock (1984), writer/director
Buddy Giovinazzo again rocked audiences with this explosive drama featuring "an authentic whiff of the sunny, slummy streets of Staten Island" (Time Out) and "a formidable trio of great performances" (The Guardian): Academy Award nominee
Tim Roth "delivers an astonishing performance" (Premiere) as a mentally impaired man released from six years in prison to live with his small-time drug dealer brother (
James Russo), his stripper sister-in-law (
Deborah Kara Unger) and the dark family secrets that threaten to destroy them all.