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And it's not really shoot'em up.
It takes place in Hells Kitchen in the early 80's.
Elijah Wood plays Sean Sullivan...a good kid who hears some local thugs talking about murking his big brother (Edward Burns) while working a bar. While they're taking a leak in the bathroom, he grabs a gun and offs them.
Their father was John Sullivan. A local legend who ran the docks back in the days.
Ed Burns plays Francis "Frankie" Sullivan. 3 years after Sean murked his brothers' would-be killers then disappeared (apparently killed), Frankie runs a bar and has given up his thug ways since his brother disappeared.
Rumors are affloat that people around the neighborhood saw "Sean's ghost" walking around. This causes problems between the "old school" neighborhood boss, Whitey Smith (played by famed Irish author, Frank McCourt), who was a friend of the Sullivans, and young, hot-headed up'n comer Moran, (played by a surprisingly cool Oliver Platt), who was cousins with the guys Sean murked.
The plot thickens when Sean's young bride, played by Rosario Dawson, has grown close to Frankie in Sean's absence (she doesn't know he's still alive). Not to mention that Sean has a 3 year old son that he doesn't know about.
For a movie that I found in the budget bin, it's really good. The music is real somber, and being that it was filmed IN Hells Kitchen right in the middle of gentrification...it fits the depressing mood. It's like saying goodbye to the kitchen.
I actually like Burns. I enjoyed "The Brothers McMullen", and I own "She's the One" on dvd. Sometimes don't like his narcisstic casting of himself as the lead in his own movies, but you can almost enjoy watching him get his Irish-guy-from-New-Yack rocks off lol He does everything but look at the camera and do the finger gun @ you lol
One thing I like is how he hires Irish-American actors. He doesn't grab joe shmo and have him play the role of "Paddie McGonagle".
Oh, and Rosario Dawson is pure eye-candy in her long 80's hair, beret, and knee high leather boots lol Avatar? E-Boogs and Nayi
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