#UNCUT GEMS CAST DRIVER#

#UNCUT GEMS CAST DRIVER#

Also lots of gambling and synthesizer music that will give you a heart attack.Cast Adam Sandler Howard Ratner Julia Fox Julia Idina Menzel Dinah Jonathan Aranbayev Eddie Jacob Igielski Beni Noah Fisher Marcel Paloma Elsesser Kat LaKeith Stanfield Demany Eric Bogosian Arno Keith Williams Richards Phil Tommy Kominik Nico Louis Anthony Arias Buddy Sean Ringgold Bodyguard #1 Jeremy Sample Bodyguard #2 Judd Hirsch Gooey Benjy Kleiner Aaron Josh Ostrovsky Noah Sahar Bibiyan Ida Lana Levitin Ruth Maksud Agadjani Yussi Boris Aranbayev Borris Ry Armstrong Roza Babekova Rachel Max Bartos Dwarf 1 Arthur Borukhov Elan Jamaal Burcher Casino Security Joseph Anthony Cartagena Pamphlet Guy Raina Cheng Nino's-Daughter Ralph Colucci Night Doorman Blaise Corrigan Cab Driver Conor Coyne Hedge Fund Guy Ara Daglian Casino Stranger Robbie DeRaffele 76er Adam Desautels Adam Wayne Diamond Handsome Older Man Anh Duong Anne Michael Durodola 76ers Lino Eisenberg The Huntsman Olarinde Esuola Restaurant Patron Henry Ferstenberg Dr. Rated R for violence, strong language, and brief sexual content.

By why, god why are they the way they are? I have an affinity for Johnny Boy just like I have an affinity for Howard. He’s a likable and charming man who just lives in the moment, making every wrong choice as they come, hurling at him. In fact, I’d say Sandler’s performance as Howard recalls glimmers of Robert De Niro’s performance as Johnny Boy, the ill fated but lovable hoodlum up to his knees in debt. Uncut Gems joins the ranks of films like Mean Streets in its gritty portrayal of city life and how it allows us to observe first hand the violence inflicted by and upon its characters. Uncut Gems embodies the style Scorsese made so famous in his heyday (although is he even out of his heyday?). It’s no wonder Martin Scorsese is the executive producer here. The music would fit futuristic skyscrapers and hovering cars but here it’s played over the grimy streets of New York. Obviously their budget is larger than their previous efforts but the scope of the film is doubled. In a way, the music reflects the film itself Uncut Gems is the most operatic film the Safdie’s have made. His score retains the jittery synth style of Good Time but this time around it seems more akin to Vangelis at times. He seems to perfectly understand the Safdie’s aesthetic. Like in Good Time, Oneohtrix Point Never composed the film’s score. Constant threats from loan sharks and criminals pestering him for their money, being thrown out of a coked up party with The Weekend, getting his most valued opal rock “taken” by NBA star Kevin Garnett and being thrown into a fountain after being punched in the nose.

The Safdies throw everything at poor Howard. Just like Robert Pattinson’s Connie Nikas in Good Time, Sandler’s Howard Ratner is a man that just seems to make all the wrong choices and we just get to sit back (or on the edge of our seats) and watch them screw up. Howard is the newest entry in a long line of insane and self-destructive characters in the Safdie catalog.

It would be impossible to praise Uncut Gems without a mention of Sandler’s unhinged performance. Howard is played with a pulsating energy by Adam Sandler in a career best performance (step aside Punch Drunk Love and the Meyerowitz Stories). The story is very personal to the brothers, Josh and Benny, who have been developing the story of Howard, a jeweler in the diamond district, for just about ten years.

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