| Staten Island | |
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| Directed by | James DeMonaco |
| Produced by | Luc Besson Sebastien Lemercier Pierre-Ange Le Pogam |
| Written by | James DeMonaco |
| Starring | Ethan Hawke Vincent D'Onofrio Seymour Cassel |
| Cinematography | Chris Norr |
| Distributed by | EuropaCorp |
| Release date(s) | October 21, 2009 (Tokyo International Film Festival) November 20, 2009 (United States) |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | France United States |
| Language | English |
Staten Island (also titled Little New York ) is a 2009 crime film written and directed by James DeMonaco. It starred Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Seymour Cassel as three Staten Islanders whose lives intersected through a crime. Following a very limited theatrical run in New York, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray in December 2009.
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A Staten Island mob boss Parmie (D'Onofrio) was robbed by a septic tank cleaner Sully (Hawke) who had a pal Jasper (Cassel), a deaf deli employee moonlighting as a corpse chopper for Parmie.
The film received mixed to average reviews from critics.[1] The New York Times critic praised the director DeMonaco for "adroitly weaving violence, absurdity and sentiment, even an environmental consciousness, into a modest, appealing fable",[2] while the reviewer of The New York Daily News blamed him for "wasting a strong cast in silly roles".[3]