A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Acting
Hoffman carries the weight of every bad choice in his shoulders.
Direction
Slattery's debut has Mad Men precision for uglier lives.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like people who've given up on poetry.
Director
John Slattery
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Mickey Scarpato
Richard Jenkins
Richard Shelburn
Christina Hendricks
Jeannie Scarpato
John Turturro
Arthur 'Bird' Capezio
Eddie Marsan
Smilin' Jack Moran
Caleb Landry Jones
Leon Scarpato
Domenick Lombardozzi
Sal
Eddie McGee
Petey
Lenny Venito
Little Eddie
Peter Gerety
McKenna
Jonathan Gordon
Gary
Jack A. O'Connell
Mole Ferrell
Bill Buell
Ray
Rebecca Kling
Fat Pat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Slattery shot this in Yonkers using actual 1970s period cars he bought himself when the budget wouldn't cover rentals.
Released four months after Hoffman's death, the film became an unintentional elegy—his final complete performance as a desperate man drowning in his own life.
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