Plot outline
Personal notes
Cast
- Ethan Hawke
- Vincent D'Onofrio
- Seymour Cassel
- Julianne Nicholson
- Ian Brennan
- Lynn Cohen
- Bill Cwikowski
- J.D. Daniels
- Rosemary De Angelis
- Dominic Fumusa
- Michael Hogan
- Dominic Marcus
- Ken Marks
- Adrian Martinez
- Larry Mitchell
- Maggie Moore
- Dennis Paladino
- Frank Pando
- Steven Randazzo
- Jeremy Schwartz
- Ezra Schwerner
- John Sharian
- Sara Surrey
- David Vadim
- Dennis Albanese
- Bob Colletti
- Christopher Cussat
- Mary Dimino
- Justin Rodgers Hall
- Tom Stratford
- Sonny Vellozzi
Plots
The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead.
In Staten Island, New York, Parmie Tarzo is a powerful mobster boss. The family man Sully Halverson is septic tank cleaner married with Mary Halverson and they are trying to have a baby. The deaf and dumb Jasper "Jas" Sabiano is the slicer of deli meat in a market and also works for Parmie Tarzo slicing the bodies of his victims. Jas likes Sully and expects to win the horse races. One day, Sully that is not a bright man decides to heist the house of Parmie Tarzo, expecting to artificially inseminate Mary with a better sperm than his in an expensive clinic. Meanwhile Jas wins the horse race and there is an attempt on Tarzo's life and he finds that his gangsters have planned it. The lives of the three residents are entwined with tragic consequences.