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.
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