Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Life Is Hot in Cracktown

Life Is Hot in Cracktown is a 2009 crime drama film based on Buddy Giovinazzo's eponymous 1993 collection of short stories. Giovinazzo directed and wrote the film.
The film intertwines several unsettling stories of people in a neighborhood ravaged by crack cocaine.
CastEvan Ross as Romeo
Stephanie Lugo as Debbie, Romeo's other
Shannyn Sossamon as Concetta a woman faced with the challenges of raising her sick child and supporting her husband
Victor Rasuk as her husband Manny, who runs a drug-infested tenement building
Lara Flynn Boyle as a cruel prostitute named Betty McBain
Thomas Ian Nicholas as Chad Wesley a rookie cop
Vondie Curtis-Hall as street-toughened veteran cop
Kerry Washington as Marybeth a transsexual prostitute
Desmond Harrington as Benny a thief and husband of MaryBeth
Mark Webber as a transgender prostitute and friend of MaryBeth
Brandon Routh as Sizemore a drug addict
RZA as a drug dealer named Sammy
Tony Plana as an alcoholic man
Edoardo Ballerini as Chas an abusive boyfriend
Michael Rapaport
Illeana Douglas as Mommy
Mayte Garcia as Murietta
Ariel Winter as Susie

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