Mixed Blood (1985 film)

Mixed Blood is a 1985 film directed by Paul Morrissey and John Leguizamo's film debut.

For other uses, see Mixed blood (disambiguation).

Mixed Blood
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Directed byPaul Morrissey
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStefan Zapasnik
Edited byScott Vickrey
Music byCoati Mundi
Production
companies
  • Sara Films
  • Set Satellite
Distributed byCinevista
Release date
18 October 1985 (US)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of underaged Brazilian kids in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.

Principal cast
ActorRole
Marília PêraRita La Punta
Richard UlaciaThiago
Rodney HarveyJose
Linda KerridgeCarol
Geraldine SmithToni
Angel DavidJuan
Roberto Luis SantanaAssassin

Critical reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times enjoyed the film:

Paul Morrissey continues to be a cinema original and his Mixed Blood, a most unorthodox look at life in the drug trade on New York's Lower East Side, is successively comic, brutal, primitive and sophisticated – a comedy with the manners of a live-action cartoon for jaded adults.[1]

However, the reviewer at Time Out did not care for it:

[The film is] Often taken for black comedy, its lurid visuals, ragbag assortment of performance styles, and the succession of ambushes, escapes and showdowns suggest something closer to Victorian melodrama.[2]

References
  1. Tomatoes
  2. "Cocaine Review. Movie Reviews – Film – Time Out London". Timeout.com. Retrieved 26 July 2010.


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