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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 04/20/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: Live/Artisan Total Copies: 15 Genres: Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film See Also: King of New York [Widescreen], King of New York [Widescreen], King of New York [UMD for PSP], King of New York [Special Edition] [THX Edition], King of New York [Blu-ray]

The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar public hospital in one of Brooklyn's worst ghetto neighborhoods. Needing the assistance of his fellow criminals to pull it off, Frank and his adjutant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) encounter a wall of resistance from every faction, including drug-trade partner Lance Wong (Joey Chin) and temperamental cop Dennis Gilley (David Caruso). Frank's do-gooder efforts ultimately result in a Mob war and in a bloody showdown between the city's various ethnic criminal actions. Ferrara followed King of New York with a similarly themed film that many critics considered his masterpiece, Bad Lieutenant (1992). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Christopher Walken - Frank White
David Caruso - Dennis Gilley
Laurence Fishburne - Jimmy Jump
Victor Argo - Roy Bishop
Wesley Snipes - Thomas Flannigan

The film that established cult director Abel Ferrara as a true master of the crime genre, The King of New York gets the deluxe DVD treatment with this feature-packed Artisan release. Presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and accompanied by closed-captioned audio rendered in a selection of either English Dolby Digital 5.1 or surround, this disc also offers optional English and Spanish subtitles. Once you've enjoyed the feature, dive headlong into a variety of bonus materials including an audio-commentary track with the director, an audio- commentary track with producer Mary Kane, editor Anthony Redman, composer Joe Delia, and associate producer Randy Sabusawa, a documentary entitled "A Short Film on the Long Career of Abel Ferrera," "The Adventures of Schooly D: Snowboarder," a Schoolly D music video, television spots, and a theatrical trailer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide