No Way Home

Joey comes back to Staten Island after six years inside. His older brother Tommy and Tommy's wife Lorraine take him in. Joey is quiet, wary, and wants to start over. But Tommy has got mixed up in drugs and is in debt. The balance in the house breaks down quickly and Joey is caught in the middle. Buddy Giovinazzo's independent American film builds a family drama rather than an action picture. Tim Roth, James Russo and Deborah Kara Unger take the leads; Roth's performance here is what the film is most talked about for. The telling rescues nobody and builds no glamour around crime. The budget is small, the spaces cramped, and the tone bleak from beginning to end.