Summer of Sam

- Release date: July 2, 1999
- Director: Spike Lee
- Screenwriter: Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli
- Producer: Jon Kilik, Spike Lee
- Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
- Music by: Terence Blanchard
- Cinematography: Ellen Kuras
- MPAA rating: R
- Run time: 142 minutes
- Domestic box office gross: $19,288,130 Box Office Mojo: Summer of Sam Box Office

Director Spike Lee's Summer of Sam is a fictionalized account of events which occurred during summer of 1977, when a serial killer known as the Son of Sam terrorized residents of New York City.
Plot Summary

Residents of an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx grow increasingly fearful and mistrustful of one another as a serial killer threatens the women of New York. As a heat wave ravages through the city, the citizens turn to violence and scapegoating in an attempt to quell the fear that has united them into a paranoid mob.
Cast
- John Leguizamo: Vinny
- Adrien Brody: Richie
- Mira Sorvino: Donna
- Jennifer Esposito: Ruby
- Michael Rispoli: Joey T

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- Im glad i caught Spike Lee's Summer Of Sam. What brilliance. Then watched The Sea Inside again. Makes up 4 that kak Che movie i saw earlier
- Summer of Sam...Spike Lee...master...
- baba oreilly by the who is so underrated. (btw watch summer of sam, it in there in a great way)
- @taroofie ja se veceras spremam pogledat (500) days of summer, nadam se da je dobar kao sto sam cita
- @CalliopeBlabs i looked for that cab vid of rob, sam, tom getting in 1 cab and nick/wife the other 1 back fr summer but couldn't find it
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