When Jersey City fishmongers Joe and Betty take a strange drifter into their empty nest, it isn't long before the interloper in horning in on the family business, bedding Betty and alienating their grown son, who is driven to extreme measures to keep his family together. A gritty noir thriller.
(24 votes)
2.
"Two thumbs up!" -Siskel & Ebert
A mysterious drifter lands in a Jersey City fish shop and changes its owners' lives forever in this steamy noir thriller starring Academy Award-nominee Edward James Olmos (1998 Best Actor, Stand and Deliver), Maria Conchita Alonso and Arie Verveen.
Grateful for a chance at life off the street, Nick (Verveen) eagerly helps Jose (Olmos) at the shop and Betty (Alonso) around the house. But emotional entanglements ensue when Nick's role as Joe's "newfound son" competes with his growing desire for Betty. When Joe and Betty's son Danny moves back home and finds Nick installed in his old bedroom, his jealousy and rage explode, exposing the undertow of lust that threatens to tear apart the family and their dreams.
(20 votes)
3.
The ever-underrated director Robert M. Young (Dominick and Eugene) made this tense variation on The Postman Always Rings Twice. Edward James Olmos and Maria Conchita Alonso star as a long-married couple who run a fish store. When a young drifter (Arie Verveen) enters their lives as an employee and inhabitant of their home, he and Alonso commence an affair made all the more dangerous when the couple's creepy son (Steven Schub) moves back in. The ensuing Oedipal competitiveness grows to an explosive finale, and while the mythic underpinnings of the story may be a bit obvious, the film moves as fluidly and is as involving as any of Young's fine work. Lots of suspense, a richly noiresque tone, and terrific acting on everyone's part, particularly Schub. --Tom Keogh
(17 votes)
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