Stars: John Leguizamo, Julie Carmen, Cliff Gorman, Rosie Perez, Justin Pierce, Michael Rapaport, Marisa Tomei, Annabella Sciorra, Rosario Dawson, Kim Director

Director: Seth Zvi Rosenfeld

Summary: A mentally retarded man named Seymour (John Leguizamo) lives in a world of violence. On the basketball ball court, he is held at razor point and forced to speak perversions. At a rally where his activist mother Mona (Julie Carmen) protests against police brutality, Seymour watches a man bleed to death from a gun shot wound. And his best friend (Michael Rapaport) shows Seymour how to stick up for himself by using a gun. Seymour's dad, Jack (Cliff Gorman) is the kind of man who brings a flask to the bar. He has a cruel habit of telling Seymour he is a hustler who pretends to be retarded so he doesn't have to move out of his mother's house. One morning, Mona is shot and killed in her apartment by Lil' Mafia (Justin Pierce), a neighborhood kid and the son of a prostitute-junkie named Mermaid (Annabella Sciorra). Mona's ditzy, pot-head girlfriend (Rosie Perez, the director's wife) joins up with Jack and a cop (Marisa Tomei) to search for Mona's killer. The poignancy of Mona's death comes in a flashback when Mona tells Seymour he can't go outside because inside it's safe, outside people get shot.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Year:	2000
Release Date:	November 11, 2002
Runtime:	83 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	I P D 10722
Label:	Altitude
Keywords:	King, General, Jungle, Drama
Genre:	Drama