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Six Move into 'Cracktown'

Boyle and Sossamon lead a group of lesser-knowns

Brad Brevet
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Published: Wednesday, March 14th 2007 at 7:07 PM

Of the six people joining Buddy Giovinazzo's urban drug-addiction drama Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Shannyn Sossamon and Lara Flynn Boyle are really the only known names. Of course some of you may have heard Vondie Curtis-Hall's name as the writer/director of Waist Deep but beyond that do you know Thomas Ian Nicholas, Mark Webber and Tony Plana? Didn't think so.

Anyway, Life is Hot in Cracktown finds Sossamon playing a woman faced with the challenges of raising her sick child and supporting a husband (Victor Rasuk) who runs a drug-infested tenement building. Boyle plays Betty McBain, a cruel whore who leads a man off to find a missing girl.

Nicholas plays a rookie cop who relies on a street-toughened vet (Curtis-Hall) to show him the ropes. Webber plays a transvestite prostitute, and Kerry Washington plays a transgender co-worker.

Plana (best known as the father on "Ugly Betty") plays an alcoholic, and Edoardo Ballerini also appears as an abusive boyfriend in a neighborhood that has been ravaged by crack and crime.

The film is based on Giovinazzo's 1993 collection of short stories.

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