Special Coverage Golden Globes'Twilight' CentralAmerican IdolThe Must ListHoliday Movies
  • --

Credits

Rated: Unrated; Video Release Date: Mar 10, 2000; Genres: Drama, Historical; With: Joaquim de Almeida and Christopher Walken; Distributor: HBO

Walken — working his leering puppetmaster shtick — plays an 1890s New Orleans power broker whose struggle to wrest control of the docks from Sicilian immigrants resulted in the worst lynching in U.S. history. But though the film is based on a true story, the victims remain such prefab Italian stereotypes that it's hard to worry too much about them. C


Sign up for EW.com's The 25 newsletter!

Stay in the know and get EW.com's top 5 stories, 5 days a week (sent weekday afternoons).
Posted Mar 10, 2000
  • Print
  • Del.icio.us
  • Google
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • More
 

Add Your Comments

The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. You must have javascript enabled to submit a comment.
--
Change/Edit your grade
characters remaining

Copyright © 2008 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved.