Life Is Hot in Cracktown is a 2009 crime drama film based on Buddy Giovinazzos eponymous 1993 collection of short stories. Giovinazzo directed and wrote the film.
Romeo, a 14yearold criminal, is the leader of a gang. In the beginning of the movie, he lures his girlfriend, Debbie, to a secluded alley where he and another gang member gang rape her. He leads his gang into robbing and torturing a very sick pensioner, and then steps up to doing a murderforhire at the behest of a local drug dealer, unaware of the enormous risks.Manny and Concetta, a young couple, are desperately trying to rise out of poverty and care for their sick baby. Manny works two jobsthe front desk of a drugriddled flop house by day and the cash register of a frequentlyrobbed bodega at night. It hardly matters that he is working so hard because the babys nonstop crying will not allow him to sleep. ........
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