When a hit-man for the Russian Jewish Mafia returns to his native Brooklyn neighborhood to do a job, he must face his family and the reasons he was forced to leave in the first place.

A Russian hit man is instructed to execute an Iranian jeweler in Brighton Beach. There is one problem, however: Joshua can't show his face in the old neighborhood. His father despises him, and Volkov, the local mob boss, wants him dead. Nonetheless, Joshua clandestinely returns to Brooklyn only to discover that his mother is dying of a brain tumor, his little brother is a high school dropout, and his father is having an affair with a younger woman. Nor has Volkov forgotten his promise to do Josh in -- a killer's already been lined up. Joshua finds his only solace in the bed of a young woman he knew years ago.

Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival.

Copyright 1994 Immigrant Pictures Inc.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Tim Roth: British Actor
Edward Furlong: American actor, THE TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, AMERICAN HI
Vanessa Redgrave: British actress
Maximilian Schell: Austrian Actor
Moira Kelly: American actress, CHAPLIN, WITH HONORS

James Gray: Director Of Photography/"Windigo"

"...[The] cinematography achieves subtle gradations of mood....Gray's talent as a filmmaker is unmistakable..."