Mixed Blood (film)

For other uses, see Mixed blood (disambiguation).
Mixed Blood

DVD Cover
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Produced by Alain Sarde
Mark Slater
Written by Alan Bowne
Paul Morrissey
Starring Marília Pêra
Geraldine Smith
Music by Coati Mundi
Cinematography Stefan Zapasnik
Edited by Scott Vickrey
Production
company
Sara Films
Set Satellite
Distributed by Cinevista
Release dates
 18 October 1985 (USA)
Running time
 98 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Mixed Blood is a 1985 film directed by Paul Morrissey and John Leguizamo's film debut.

Plot

Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of underaged Brazilian kids in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.

Principal cast

Actor Role
Marília Pêra Rita La Punta
Richard Ulacia Thiago
Rodney Harvey Jose
Linda Kerridge Carol
Geraldine Smith Toni
Angel David Juan
Roberto Luis Santana Assassin

Critical reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times enjoyed the film:

“ Paul Morrissey continues to be a cinema original and his Mixed Blood, a most unorthodox look at life in the drug trade on New York's Lower East Side, is successively comic, brutal, primitive and sophisticated - a comedy with the manners of a live-action cartoon for jaded adults.[1] ”

However, the reviewer at Time Out did not care for it:

“ [The film is] Often taken for black comedy, its lurid visuals, ragbag assortment of performance styles, and the succession of ambushes, escapes and showdowns suggest something closer to Victorian melodrama.[2] ”

References

  1. ↑ Tomatoes
  2. ↑ "Cocaine Review. Movie Reviews - Film - Time Out London". Timeout.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26.

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