Staten Island (film)
Staten Island (also known as Little New York) is a 2009 crime film written and directed by James DeMonaco[1] in his directorial debut.It stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Seymour Cassel as three Staten Islanders whose lives intersect through a crime.Following a very limited theatrical run in New York City, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in December 2009.A Staten Island mob boss Parmie is robbed by a septic tank cleaner named Sully, who is friends with Jasper, a deaf deli employee moonlighting as a corpse chopper for Parmie.[2][3] The New York Times critic praised the director James DeMonaco for "adroitly weaving violence, absurdity and sentiment, even an environmental consciousness, into a modest, appealing fable",[4] while the reviewer from The New York Daily News blamed him for "wasting a strong cast in silly roles".