Cast
Tim Roth 
Edward Furlong 
Moira Kelly 
Vanessa Redgrave 
Paul Guilfoyle 
Natalya Andreychenko
Credits
Written by: 
James Gray
Plot
A Russian-Jewish hitman, Joshua, returns to his Brighton Beach neighbourhood in Brooklyn for a job, and is drawn back to his dying mother, his younger brother and his violent father, in a bleak, wintry crime drama.
Sinekatalog’s take
A bleak, wintry and impressive debut.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.7 / 10 (10,283 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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