Suspicion

A good little film that makes the most out of an interesting premise. A sick gangster makes friends with a waitress. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. The unknown cast makes the most of whats here. I was pulled into the story. The waitress wants to be a journalist and has a dope dealer for a boyfriend. Everyone has connections to the mob and most of them have no clue about the others. A lot of the shots were done out in the park or outside a restaurant and that in itself was kinda cool and interesting. Everyone needs to get out more, even dope dealers and mafia hit men...ya know. This film is very low budget but it really doesn't take a lot of money to make a good movie. Just leave out the car crashes, computer animation/scenery, and the big explosions and a good film can be made cheap. For decades movies were made the way this one was...with a story, actors, a smart director and lights. Its not a bad system IMO

A slow but well paced enjoyable movie. Low key, great story with great acting.

... that it takes too long to tell it, and it's confusing!

This is a slow moving story that concentrates maybe a bit too much on the human compassion side between Alicia and Darrell and not the criminal activities Alicia's boyfriend is involved into. (And Alicia has no idea her boyfriend is up to no good).

We learn Alicia is studying law and Darrell has jail time and mafia connections in his past. Her boyfriend Tom does not approve of her involvement with Darrell who is in the last stages of cancer and claims to be friendless.

All this comes to a head when a psychotic mafia boss takes over the drug ring and doesn't like Darrell talking to Alicia and somehow Tom is all mixed up with this mob ring.

Something I missed or it's just not clear; but the whole story is a rather convoluted mess involving innocence, corruption, and deceit.