Storyline
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.
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Cast
Jack Krizmanich, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Ferlito, Helen Mirren, Angel Oquendo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Macy Gray, Mo'Nique, Tom Pasch, Ryan Eric Speise, Matt Higgins, John Panzarella, Marvina Vinique, Marilyn Yoblick, Cullen Flynn Clancy, Shaun Brewington, Darnell Williams, Noel Murano, Tomy Dunster
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Reviews
70
L.A. Weekly
This is a sick flick. Sick, but satisfying. A cartoonish parable in the mode of Cronenberg's "A History of Violence."
63
Despite the edifying square-up -- moral lessons about family, the legacy of violence and the tenacious power of love -- the appeal is freak-show all the way.
60
Variety
Admirably jostles and upends the fatigued killer-for-hire genre.
60
A gaudy thriller saturated in sex and violence, is an extravagance that leaves you with your mouth hanging open - partly in admiration of its audacity and partly in disbelief at its preposterousness.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
A strident and shocking jumble, Shadowboxer suggests what you might come up with if you decided to inject John Huston's dark 1985 film, "Prizzi's Honor," with Oedipal overtones.
