Fresh Kills

Fresh Kills (2024)

You do what’s best for the family.

Rose Larusso, an inquisitive young girl in 1980s Staten Island, discovers her father is an emerging mafia kingpin. Rose's growing desire to break free from the path set before her soon threatens her existence and alienates her from her closest allies: her mother Francine, her sister Connie, and her aunt Christine.

Date of release
2024-06-14
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (23)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Jennifer Esposito

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Staten Island

Fresh Kills is a 2023 American drama film marking the directorial debut of Jennifer Esposito, who also wrote and co-produced it. The film stars Esposito, Emily Bader, Odessa A'zion, Domenick Lombardozzi, Nicholas Cirillo and Annabella Sciorra.

Production

Jennifer Esposito told Variety that the idea for the script had been “percolating” in her mind since she was 16 years-old and growing up on Staten Island.

Esposito told Deadline Hollywood in October 2021, she had struggled to get financing for the project from financiers and distributors due to the lack of male lead actors in the film. Funding instead arrived from a unique source, with Deadline Hollywood calling it “the first feature film financed and traded by a global group of fan investors via this first-of-its-kind IPO on Upstream Exchange, the Ethereum-powered digital stock exchange”.

In November 2021, Annabella Sciorra joined Esposito in the cast playing Christine, the sister of Esposito's character Francine. Odessa A'zion and Emily Bader joined the cast in December 2021 as Francine's daughters.

Principal photography took place on Staten Island in February 2022.

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