Little Odessa

1994
12
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

9.6K

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Early 1990s drama about a family of Soviet Jews living in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach ocean-side neighborhood nicknamed Little Odessa.

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Crime Drama

A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

9.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 6 nominations total

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Trivia
This film contains just 454 shots in about 92 minutes of action (i.e. excluding the credits). This equates to an average shot length of about 12 seconds. This is very long compared to the 3 - 6 second standard of most Hollywood films made in the 1990s.

Goofs
In the scenes where Mr. Schell is supposedly speaking Russian, his language is unintelligible beyond the simplest words.

Quotes
Arkady Shapira: You know there is a saying: When a child is six years old, it says, "the father can do everything". When he's twelve, he says, "the father can almost do everything". When he's sixteen, he says, "the father is an idiot". When he's twenty-four, he says, "the father wasn't maybe such an idiot", and then, when he's forty, he says, "if I could only ask my father". But I'm afraid my sons will never ask themselves that.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Bridges of Madison County/Die Hard with a Vengeance/Forget Paris/Titanica/Little Odessa (1995)

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Chilled me...literally

The thing I remember that most impressed me about Little Odessa was how director James Gray actually made me feel cold. There are a lot of exteriors that show a frozen, snow covered New York, but the whole thing is so wonderfully photographed that it actually made me feel chilled. The story is above average and Tim Roth is starting to run the risk of stereotyping himself into these kinds of violent characters...but this film will always remain one of my favorites because the simple look of the film affected me.