CAST: Mekhi Phifer, Rosanna Arquette, William Forsythe, Angelina Jolie as Gloria McNeary, Johnny Whitworth, Stephen Payne, James Russo

SYNOPSIS: After his release from prison for a murder he didn't commit, Johnny (Mekhi Phifer) is confronted by the dead boy's sister Gloria (Angelina Jolie). Meanwhile, having witnessed the killing and fingered Johnny for it, Patty (Johnny Whitworth) is asked by Gloria to kill Johnny, but instead falls into a drug-addled stupor with Gloria's mother Liz (Rosanna Arquette). Oddly, for someone trained at the Actors' Studio Cinciripini has no sense of delicacy with any of his talent, and as a result the movie is less performed than bellowed (although it looks good). The one note of modulation is provided by William Forsythe as Lou, the ex-boxer for whom Johnny works at the 37th Street horse stables.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Directed and written by: Tony Cinciripini

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