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2009 French film

Staten Island
Film poster
Directed by	James DeMonaco
Written by	James DeMonaco
Produced by	Luc Besson Pascal Cauchetaux Sebastien Lemercier Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Starring	Ethan Hawke Vincent D'Onofrio Seymour Cassel
Cinematography	Chris Norr
Edited by	Hervé de Luze Christel Dewynter
Music by	Frédéric Verrières
Distributed by	EuropaCorp
Release dates	October 21, 2009 (2009-10-21) (Tokyo International Film Festival) November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	France United States
Language	English

Staten Island (also known as Little New York) is a 2009 crime film written and directed by James DeMonaco 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.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Ethan Hawke as Sully Halverson
Vincent D'Onofrio as Parmie Tarzo
Seymour Cassel as Jasper Sabiano
Julianne Nicholson as Mary Halverson
Adrian Martinez as Officer Rodriguez

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 25% based on reviews from 8 critics. 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", while the reviewer from The New York Daily News blamed him for "wasting a strong cast in silly roles".

References

"Staten Island". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved July 4, 2016.
"Staten Island (Little New York) (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
"Staten Island Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
Webster, Andy (November 20, 2009). "Movie Reviews – Staten Island". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
Neumaier, Joe; Weitzman, Elizabeth (November 19, 2009). "Short movie reviews". The New York Daily News. Retrieved March 11, 2021.

External links

Staten Island at IMDb
Staten Island at AllMovie

v t e Works by James DeMonaco
Films written and directed	Staten Island (2009) The Purge (2013) The Purge: Anarchy (2014) The Purge: Election Year (2016) This Is the Night (2021) The Home (2024)
Films written	Jack (1996) The Negotiator (1998) Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Skinwalkers (2006) The First Purge (2018) The Forever Purge (2021)
TV series created	Ryan Caulfield: Year One (1999) The Kill Point (2007) The Purge (2018–19)
Related	The Purge (franchise)
Category

Luc Besson

Filmography

Films

Directed	Le Dernier Combat (1983) Subway (1985) The Big Blue (1988) La Femme Nikita (1990) Atlantis (1991) Léon: The Professional (1994) The Fifth Element (1997) The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) Angel-A (2005) Arthur and the Minimoys (2006) Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009) Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010) The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) The Lady (2011) The Family (2013) Lucy (2014) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) Anna (2019) Dogman (2023) Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)
Written	Kamikaze (1986) Taxi (1998) Taxi 2 (2000) The Dancer (2000) Kiss of the Dragon (2001) Wasabi (2001) Yamakasi (2001) The Transporter (2002) Fanfan la Tulipe (2003) Taxi 3 (2003) Michel Vaillant (2003) Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004) District 13 (2004) Revolver (2005) Transporter 2 (2005) Unleashed (2005) Bandidas (2006) Taxi 4 (2007) Taken (2008) Transporter 3 (2008) District 13: Ultimatum (2009) From Paris with Love (2010) Colombiana (2011) Lockout (2012) Taken 2 (2012) 3 Days to Kill (2014) Brick Mansions (2014) Taken 3 (2015) The Transporter Refueled (2015) The Warriors Gate (2016) Renegades (2017) Arthur, malédiction (2022) Weekend in Taipei (2024)
Produced	Cold Moon (1991) Nil by Mouth (1997) Chaos and Desire (2002) Les Côtelettes (2003) Taxi (2004) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) Love and Other Disasters (2006) Nuovomondo (2006) Tell No One (2006) The Secret (2007) Hitman (2007) Taken (2008) Home (2009) Staten Island (2009) 22 Bullets (2010) The Source (2011) A Monster in Paris (2011) Collision (2013) Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013) The Homesman (2014) Taxi 5 (2018)

TV series

Transporter: The Series (2012–2014)
No Limit (2012–2015)
Taxi Brooklyn (2014)
Taken (2017–2018)