Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Be cool. You're so cool. Life is cool in Cracktown.
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
- Date of release
- 2009-06-26
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Buddy Giovinazzo
Casting
- Kerry Washington — Marybeth
- Victor Rasuk — Manny
- Evan Ross — Romeo
- Brandon Routh — Sizemore
- Shannyn Sossamon — Concetta
- Vondie Curtis-Hall — Dixon
- RZA — Sammy
- Thomas Ian Nicholas — Chad Wesley
- Lara Flynn Boyle — Betty McBain
- Illeana Douglas — Mommy
- Desmond Harrington — Benny
- Ariel Winter — Suzie
Interesting facts
- Budget: $4M
Life Is Hot in Cracktown is a 2009 American crime drama film based on Buddy Giovinazzo's 1993 collection of short stories with the same title. Giovinazzo directed and wrote the film.
Production
Director Buddy Giovinazzo revealed that originally the rape scene came twenty minutes into the film and the film opened in the bodega (convenience store).
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