Little Odessa

Name: Little Odessa
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: May 19, 1995
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Boris McGiver, David Vadim, Edward Furlong, Maximilian Schell, Mina Bern

1995

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Cine Saison | Release Date: May 19, 1995 | R

Starring: Boris McGiver, David Vadim, Edward Furlong, Maximilian Schell, Mina Bern, Moira Kelly, Natalya Andreychenko, Paul Guilfoyle, Tim Roth, Vanessa Redgrave

Summary: Early 1990s drama about a family of Soviet Jews living in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach ocean-side neighborhood nicknamed Little Odessa.

Director: James Gray

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Caryn James

Little Odessa might have been a great film. Instead, it is an exceptionally good one, the kind that suggests the start of a powerful career. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Filmmaker Gray, only 25 when he made this, expertly delineates the restive characters in this Jewish emigre community, and the existential voids among them all. He's helped by assured, subtle performances all around Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The film has a thesis: hitmen must have psychopathy on their CVs; but even bad guys have souls. It's Roth's tough job to illustrate this, which, in his finest performance to date, he does magnificently. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Despite its flaws, Little Odessa haunts the memory. [30 June 1995, p.3G]

Peter Rainer

Gray hasn't filled out the emotional terrain he's surveyed here. He hasn't quite grown into the emotions he wants to put on screen. When he does, he'll come up with something lasting. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Since the hit-man career is probably one of the most familiar non-law enforcement careers in films, it should come as no surprise that Little Odessa has nothing new to say about it. Read full review

Barbara Shulgasser

Gray is more interested in hobnobbing with thespian greats than he is in making a good movie. Read full review

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NickTheCritick

Nov 7, 2021

This is a good gangster movie. It has been way underrated since it is not very famous here where I live but it is a good debut movie by James Gray actually and it turns out to be better than some of his later movies. I suggest everybody to watch it.

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