Fear City
Fear City is a 1984 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, and Melanie Griffith. The screenplay was written by longtime Ferrara collaborator Nicholas St. John. It is considered a cult film.
Plot
Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but they broke up because Rossi's memories of accidentally killing an opponent in the ring during his days as a professional boxer left him emotionally barren. Loretta still cares for Matt but has moved onto a lesbian relationship with a pretty young dancer named Leila.
More details
| author | Nicholas St. John |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Manhattan New York City |
| director | Abel Ferrara |
| editor | Anthony Redman Jack W. Holmes |
| events | criminal investigation femicide nightlife serial killer serial murder sex work violence against women |
| genre | action crime thriller |
| keywords | ambush american mafia attack best friend box decapitate downward spiral draw drug addiction hang injured kill land lesbian relationship mafioso murder nothing omerta professional boxer shoot than the vice detective vice squad write young man |
| musicBy | Dick Halligan |
| producer | Bruce Cohn Curtis |
| productionCompany | Castle Hill Productions |
| publisher | Aquarius Releasing |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles New York City |
| theme | erotic thriller neo-noir |