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John Leguizamo (Actor), Adrien Brody (Actor), Spike Lee (Director, Producer, Writer) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli
  • Directors: Spike Lee
  • Writers: Spike Lee, Michael Imperioli, Victor Colicchio
  • Producers: Spike Lee, Jeri Carroll-Colicchio, Jon Kilik, Michael Imperioli
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 24 July 2000
  • Run Time: 136 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004TT7D
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,117 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Spike Lee's serial killer thriller is set in the heady days of punk in late Seventies Manhattan. Vinny (John Leguizamo) is determined to live up to his reputation as the neighbourhood stud, despite the devoted love of his wife Dionna (Mira Sorvino). Ritchie (Adrien Brody), meanwhile, funds his attempts to make it in the music industry by moonlighting as a male stripper. When a serial killer starts picking out his victims in their area, the finger of suspicion falls on them all.

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It's important to note that Spike Lee's drama is not titled Son of Sam. Summer of Sam doesn't chronicle the killer as much as the times: the blistering hot summer of 1977 when the Big Apple's psyche was taken hostage by the lone gunman. We spot the killer (Michael Badalucco) in his mad ramblings but the film centres on two friends from the Bronx: Vinny and Ritchie (John Leguizamo and Adrien Brody). Vinny and his wife, Dionna (Mira Sorvino), bury a bad marriage (he cheats at a drop of a hat) in the disco halls of the area. Ritchie returns to the neighbourhood sporting punk hair, punk clothes and a British accent that immediately infuriates the neighbourhood boys oozing far too much testosterone. Cops, local mob leaders and the guys on the street all have ideas who the killer is: everyone from neighbourhood loners to Reggie Jackson (in the midst of World Series heroism) are on their misguided lists of suspects. When the film looks at how the citizens faced the fearful times, Lee scores with his energetic camerawork and pop soundtrack. Yet the film is banal in its domestic dramatics, taking large detours into Vinny's home sex life (stagnant) and Ritchie's extracurricular activities. One of the marriage arguments--though real and well acted--is so long and cliché-ridden you wonder if someone fell asleep in the editing booth. Add the point-blank killings and non-stop vulgarity and you have Lee's most unpleasant film. --Doug Thomas

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4.0 out of 5 starsSpike Lee brilliantly captures the Summer of 1977
By Brit Boy TOP 500 REVIEWER on 18 July 2014
Format: DVD
On face value, you'd be mistaken for believing that Spike Lee's lesser-known film 'Summer Of Sam' is a docudrama or thriller surrounding a series of murders carried out by David Berkowitz in the Summer of 1977 in New York. Whilst these slayings do provide a background to the film, the focus is actually on a close knit group of people reacting to the possibility of becoming the unknown murderer's next victim. Although it isn't your typical thriller, suspense is created with the characters wondering who they can trust.

The plot relies heavily on the relationship between married, but unfaithful man Vinny (John Leguizamo) and punk rocker Ritchie (Adrien Brody), two friends who, due to their lives, interests and principles changing, are growing further apart. With Leguizamo, Brody, as well as Mira Sorvino, and Jennifer Esposito, you'd expect excellent performances, and won't be disappointed.

Lee brilliantly captures the disco club scene in New York at the time, with outrageous behaviour from rampant hard drug use to lots of casual, meaningless sex, needless to say there's plenty of violence and salty language throughout. The cinematography and overall sound of the film, with a fantastic soundtrack which crams in an impressive list of many hit songs, is so good, that I forgot I was watching a movie shot in 1999 a number of times. It's all so realistic that you'll feel that you were there with these characters in the Summer of 1977, which was the hottest Summer ever.

'Summer Of Sam' was not what I was expecting, but I enjoyed it very much for what it is, an excellent snapshot of the time and a focus on interesting people's lives and feelings. It's a long film, and sometimes it does drag on, but it's still one of those films you just have to tick off your list to see.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSweaty And Authentic
By Charles Vasey TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 21 July 2009
Format: DVD
As an evocation of New York in that summer just as disco began to sink and punk to rise this film is hard to beat. I was in NYC that summer and it brought back the atmosphere perfectly (though therapy should help me). But authenticity is not enough to make for entertainment. The subjects of the film, a group of Bronx young Italian-American men, are by turns stupid, vicious and risible. Sometimes they manage all three together. The director clearly dislikes his subjects and that's exactly what he passes to the viewer.

(Was that the actor who became Jackie Aprille in The Sopranos?)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Long Hot Summer
By A Customer on 13 Sept. 2000
Format: DVD
The murders of the serial killer 'Son of Sam' provide a backdrop for the main part of this film, essentially a story about two friends and their increasingly different lifestyles. There is a randy husband who despite having a beautiful wife can only find sexual release with other women. At the same time his friend becomes an outsider in the neighbourhood they have grown up in by liking british bands, the punk scene and not being afraid to participate freely as a dancer (amongst other things) in a gay bar. The story of these two and the people around them is gripping and simply intertwined with the serial killings taking place at the time in their town. The married man becomes increasingly desperate in his attempts to come to terms with himself whilst his friend, essentially an innocent, becomes a victim of predjudice, betrayed by those around him. Both men, you cannot help but feel, have their fates tied and trussed to the Son of Sam. The sex scenes have been exaggerated in the press of course and form an essential part to the development of the married couple. The seventies soundtrack is great and the acting is excellent throughout. I thought it was the most humane of all the Spike Lee films I'd seen.
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt has its merits..............................
By Saturnicus VINE VOICE on 18 Jan. 2008
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Brilliantly directed and superbly cast and acted with an outstanding and varied soundtrack, but I was disappointed. Frankly I was expecting something along the lines of Se7en, The Watcher, or Silence of the Lambs. What I saw was a film concerning the sex lives of the main characters and drug, alcohol and incoherent thought. A Serial killer is on the rampage in the blistering heat of New york in 1977. Our characters are trying to guess who it might be and making the suspects fit the crimes. They fail.
There is little time actually spent on the crimes or killer himself.
For me it was rather a let-down but it is worth watching once.
I would not want to see it again, but I gave it 3 stars for its many attributes.
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5.0 out of 5 starsM-U-R-D-E-R . . . Murder
By A Customer on 18 Nov. 2000
Format: DVD
This film is a fantastic portarait of a community under attack from drugs,intolerance, a heat wave and, oh yeah, a serial killer. This is all the background to the story of two friends and how they move apart from one another. One is a punk getting a bit of money working in a gay strip club while the other is a guilt ridden adultorous disco man, who treats his wife like a queen but only the dance floor. As suspicions fly as the body count rises (shown in some of the most disturbing murder scenes I've seen) suspicions fly as a community turns in on itself leading to disaster.
A great film, very well directed and with a fantastic sountrack (see the medley of madness to The Who's Baba O'Riley). It also shows a brilliant bit of journalist impartiality in the epilogoue. Go see.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFor those thinking of buying the French Blu-ray
By Stephen H. on 13 Mar. 2016
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
If you're considering the French Blu-ray of Summer of Sam (in the absence of any other Region B release) then note that it is a 1080i/50Hz transfer. The picture quality throughout is a little soft while there is noticeable colour banding on gradients like walls and faces. It runs at original speed unlike many 50Hz transfers so motion is a bit jerky making it hard to watch camera pans. There is a choice of DTS Master HD original English or dubbed French audio, but if you want only English then you will need to turn off the French subtitles with your player controls.
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