SUMMER OF SAM - Trailer - HQ

[Fanofcartoons1994]

That trailer music, it is the same music that plays in the CSI: Miami intro.

[JoeySk84life]

my dad grew up with al palagonia ive been over his house so many times lol we moved from new york so we havent seen him in a while

[kanuni1979]

GREAT MOVIE based on a true story

[BettinaBalser]

Never really had much feeling for Spike Lee before this movie. Just one viewing of this film showed me that he is a genius.

[ANeonTiger]

I remember that summer well. ... Wait, no I don't, I was born 13 years after that summer.

[notorioustia]

I HAVE to get the soundtrack !

[TheCarmillaShow]

Sooo many fucks. I felt like I was sitting in my mothers living room.

[jesterd14]

I remember that summer very well, I was spending the summer with my cousin and his wife and kids in the city. My cousins wife was a model and had long long brunette hair, and she wouldn't leave the house after dark. She was working then and couldn't dye it, and it was too long to wear a wig. So my cousin bought a house north of the city and we moved there and she commuted into work everyday. Everyone was flipping out. This movie is more about the hysteria than the actual killer.

[givepropstotherich]

Am I the only one who looked up the trailer cause of the bleep app on the iPhone/iPod touch???

[MixedMartialFartist]

@givepropstotherich yes

[gvsclipmarket]

The use of the word "fuck" in this film is 435 counts !!!! 3.06 FUCKS/Min

WHAT THE FUCK !!!! OH SORRY

[Fanofcartoons1994]

@gvsclipmarket As soon as I looked up on the "Parents Guide", I too was thinking the same thing. But then again, it's one of those swears-a-lot movies that frequently uses profanity, why was the audience supposed to expect?

[musicplayer316619]

this moviehas 435 uses of fuck in it just saying

[ButterflyQueene07]

I remember seeing this movie with my mother yrs ago, I was shaking the whole time. Even after I left the theater.

[MysticsInBali]

This is a textbook example on how to make a BAD film. This is one of the shittiest films ever made. It's complete bullshit. Spike Lee is completely out of touch with reality and knows NOTHING about his subject matter. The guy should be working at a convenience store.

[metsdudenj]

@MysticsInBali If its related to blacks then hes good at it

[fromthehaven94]

@MysticsInBali 100 percent prime B.S. statement. That's all I gotta say.

[circuitoZ]

@MysticsInBali you think you know a lot,but you actually dony't know much....in general.

[TheWolverineiscool]

adrien broody rocks!

[manhattan85]

Would pay $15,000 to go back to NYC circa summer '77

[808Lana]

I love this trailer. Love the angles & shots director Spike Lee uses. And the music is awesome! Love it. The film itself kind of lagged for me sometimes, got too slow-paced. But I still enjoyed. Thanks for posting this trailer!

[clayton7m]

Good trailer

[simoneproductions]

they say the f word 445 times it says the 2nd most in movie history

[TheMrThundernuts]

That dick weed in the blue shirt @0:25 should have had his ass handed to him.

[bobgrantsbus]

Fantastic film with great performances across the board and music that inspires.

[purpleheart300]

people who watched this movie should watch UNITED STATES OF LEALAND next

[Sevmarick]

2nd most fucks out of any movie

[DeanNJN]

@Sevmarick It pretty much is #1, considering the #1 movie is just a documentary on the word Fuck itself. That's cheating lol

[mihajlo321]

Jennifer Esposito looked great in this movie...

[watts4563]

Second amount of "Fuck"'s said in this film...EVER!

[MGSFan22]

I just uploaded the entire film.

[TonyG8992]

Adrien Brody was my favorite character and John Leguizamo was badass. Love this film.

[JohnnyBoy7267]

Vinny stop it what has that to do with you fucking other women!

haha i love this movie :)

[quintfl]

Spike Lee (thumb down)(fart noise) Spike Lee movies are a lot like movies with Bruce Willis in them. THEY SUCK

[MGSFan22]

@quintfl Terrible comparison and terrible opinion, good thing it isn't factual.

[adintretz]

Oh, fuck.

Isn't this that fucking movie that uses the fucking word fuck like 400 fucking times? What the fuck. That is a lot of fucking fucks. That's fucking like 3 fucking fucks per minute. For fucking real.

Fuck.

[drdr64f]

@adintretz if that is true the cutter of this trailer has done an extraordinary job!

[lordoftheheavymetal]

mmmmm....Adrien Brody.......

[wingchundragon]

I went to the premier if this film and I'll never forget if. Badass!!!! Just didn't think John fit Italian well

[joenys78]

this movie has 435  "F" words in it

[ragnarocknroll]

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[JetRanger0007]

I remember when all this really happened back in 1977, it was constant news too !

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

Even Martin Scorsese called this film excellent.

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

I uploaded the entire film since DCAU's account got deleted.

[DCAUFan]

It's a good thing I uploaded this film, I had no idea it had so many fans.

[GamerX7800X]

Hey its bob! 1:30

[DCAUFan]

the entire film is now uploaded on my channel

[DCAUFan]

Subscribe to my account, I'll have the full movie uploaded by next week, I have 25th Hour fully uploaded already.

[aaliyahakacbsgirl8]

My English teacher told my class about this but she said it was actually blondes that he was going after. Her mom lived in Manhattan at the time where the killings were happening. All her blode friends dies their her brunette and told her too but she didn't. He mainly went after girls that had just came from a date and not just some random blone on the street.

[jesterd14]

@aaliyahakacbsgirl8 She's wrong, he was going after brunettes, in fact the 3 men he killed had long brown hair. Women were buying wigs and dying their hair. A lot of women also began to dress in baggy clothes and cut their hair so they could pass for boys at a distance. I was there in Manhattan in 77 I was 15 and believe me, it was all anyone in the city talked about.

[spagandtuna]

Very disappointing movie, lacked the Lee magic that was abundant in Do and Clockers, subtexts are often ridiculous and do not connect to the actual fear that gripped my city. Almost as if Berkowitz was peripheral to the movie--too much Leguizamo and the Italian dolts were ridiculously stupidly paranoid. We were all afraid and that was never captured here. So sad, I expected more.

[CooperDonny]

LOL! I just found the film leaked online! See the whole film now at

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[Gunfighter1b]

I remember my aunt Debbie getting her hair dyed blonde and the reaction from my uncle when she came home with blonde hair. He used to call her a dumb blonde and she'd say, better to be a dumb blonde then a dead brunette

[MrKenny1878]

Excellent and Underated.

[Penaelo]

I don't know why but the part where the dog speaks to sam made me laugh out loud. I'm pretty sure it was not intentional it was just so ridicules.

[gustomlincm]

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[chichomalicho]

la pelicula es altamente recomendable ..!

[asantegln1]

I loved this movie.

[usuariotubebar]

¿Es Buena La pelicula?

[Toughguysdontdance12]

Sí, es altamente recomendable. Tienes que verla.

[RobinetteTV]

whats that song called playing at the begianing at the trialer

[kersen18]

@RobinetteTV

U mean Abba- Fernando ? song in the beginning of trailer

[BruinProfessor]

It's Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way", a big hit from 1976.

[mitsubishidiamante]

good movie

[yeeuup]

this guy used to be my boss for a jet company that worked for, al palagonia great sales man

[tubcaster]

Spike Lee loves stereotypes

[BirthofCharlie]

@tubcaster Especially when it comes to Italians. Which is Bullshit. If an Italian Director used the stereotypes of the black man in his films there would be an uproar. Italians are the new blacks. Seriously. Also to add insult to injury he cast John Leguizamo, who I like by the way, as an Italian? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!

[ceeIoc]

Why not. He looks italian. Al pacino played a great cuban.

[EnglishTeacher1998]

Leguizamo does NOT look Italian. He looks Latino. He also looks TOTALLY FREAKING GORGEOUS, but that's another story. It is odd casting, though. I heard Michael Imperioli, who wrote the script and has a small role, was supposed to have Leguizamo's part, but couldn't at the last minute. I love Imperioli, too, btw, but one is clearly Latino (Leguizamo) and the other clearly Italian (Imperioli) and, oh, Adrian Brody, ANOTHER gorgeous guy, is clearly Jewish. Who was the casting director?

[ceeIoc]

you do realize majority of white puerto ricans are of spanish/italian descent. Youre right about Brody though.

[EnglishTeacher1998]

White Puerto Ricans? Oh, ceeloc, you can get in trouble for saying that. Yes, many Latinos have Spanish or Italian blood (obviously - look at history, language, religion). So do many Jews. Not all Jews "look" like Jews, Italians like Italians, etc. You know that. However, Leguizamo LOOKS & SOUNDS NYC Latino. Imperioli LOOKS & SOUNDS Italian - New York State. Brody's voice is clearly New York, his accent is harder for me to pinpoint -- but he LOOKS like a Jew. I'd do all three. I wish.

[lazy24zzz]

@EnglishTeacher1998 You really stereotype.

[EnglishTeacher1998]

@lazy24zzz You think I stereotype? Nice accusation. Now prove it. Take something I said & prove that it is stereotyping. There is nothing wrong with stating facts. For example, Spike Lee looks black. Duh. Michael Imperioli looks Italian and sounds New York. That's not stereotyping. Imperioli doesn't look like a Swede nor does he sound like one -- all the better for him. Don't you know different ethnicities have different accents? You are quite ignorant -- look it up.

[EnglishTeacher1998]

Al Pacino is a great actor, but I don't know if he played a great Cuban. I don't know enough Cubans to say that. His gorgeous friend in Scarface, Steven Bauer, IS Cuban. Bauer, however, could play Italian, Jewish, Latino -- his looks are versatile, as long as he isn't playing a Viking. Leguizamo is clearly Latino. He can play Tybalt - brilliantly - but not as an Italian (and he didn't). Ah, so many gorgeous men. When will someone bring up Goran Visnjic and make my night complete?

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

@EnglishTeacher1998 Leguizamo is actually Colombian, you could look it up if you like, he also said so in an interview, why would he lie?

[slaterbayside7]

couldnt agree more

[EnglishTeacher1998]

I agree it was very odd casting, since Leguizamo looks and sound NYC Latino. Who knows why Lee okayed that decision. FWIW, I think Lee wishes he WERE Italian. He makes entire movies about Italians. Do The Right Thing, Summer of Sam, Jungle Fever -- some are ostensibly about blacks, but they also tell, well, a black man's version of an Italian story. Lee clearly has a fascination for Italians.

[Ghats212]

@EnglishTeacher1998 Do the right thing was about every race in New York as a whole. You probably just focused your attention on all the Italian aspects of the film and not the others. Easy mistake to make

[EnglishTeacher1998]

@Ghats212 Actually, you are mistaken. Although there are many races included in Do The Right Thing, the main characters are black and Italian. Sure, we see Koreans, WASPy bike riding guys, etc., but the hands-down most important characters are blacks and Italians. They get the most lines, the most screen time, and their stories get the most focus.

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

@EnglishTeacher1998 There are only three Italian characters in the entire film unless you count Giancarlo Esposito(who is Italian in real life but played a black man in the film). There are like 50 black people in Do The Right Thing(and the Italians also represent all white people in a lot of ways if you pay close attention).

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

@EnglishTeacher1998 Lee chose Leguizamo because he had a great performance in a previous Spike Lee film called "Freak", which launched his career.

[Ghats212]

@tubcaster He inserts stereotypes in his movies to highlight what people in society see as a whole, a very shallow perspective on things. That doesnt mean that it's his view specifically

[harshLesson]

i liked the movie. wasnt really captivating perse, but the scenes were very visually pleasing.

[s7s7Joy]

Those white blocks in this trailer creep the shit out of me.

[hannadragonslayer]

Anybody know what age this movie is?

[flamnjon6969]

Original release date was in 1998.

[tcornell05]

way creepy movie

[Meatballhead07]

It's just my opinion, but I really found this movie to be boring. It was waaaayyyy too long and I was just waiting for it to end. Maybe not being alive in the 70's hinders my chance for liking this.

[RobertGoodFella]

I didn't like it much at all the first time I watched it. I gave it another watch and liked it so much I bought the dvd

[thegroupharmonyalley]

"Those who don't know history..are destined to repeat it' Steve Dunleavy, 6/25/99 NY Post "New low in racist moviemaking"

"To pretend Summer of Sam isa responsible reflection on tragedyis an excuse2portray Italian-Americans as fumbling , idiotic , brutal sex-mad morons, women shown indulging in bi-sexual orgy. Do parents of dead and wounded have2Ctheir kids portrayed this way? Sure, Spike had Italian screenwriters/producers & JohnGotti had Sammy theBull Gravano. Dont spend a dime on this

[Back0Pack]

This movie looks so familiar but then again in spots it looks new. Im gonna have to watch it.

[JahariKavi]

nobody does it like spike

[FilmForger]

I was there for real in the 70's and the movie

[BettinaBalser]

This is seriously one of the top 25 movies ever made.

[Tablekorner]

man so this movie like 3 days ago and i loved it

[DefsoundsKingz]

Spike Lee is the black Martin Scorsese..

[OrthodoxSteel]

You ever use Lee's name in the same breath as Scorsese I will sue you silly.

Lee isnt good enuff to grace a porn flick set.

Punk bitch Lee.

[25thH]

Haha so true. Both great directors.

[richie1438]

what's the song at 0:15 & 0:55?

[SparkamusPryme]

"Don't Leave Me This Way" -Thelma Houston.

[jadiensdream14]

I'm not sure of the second one, but the first is "Fernando" by ABBA.

[thegirl44]

0:15 Fernando-ABBA

0:55 Don't Leave Me This Way- Thelma Houston

1:12 Won't Get Fooled Again- The Who

[devil6lock]

no dude, the second one is everybody dance by chic and the third one is thelma houston

[thegirl44]

Did you notice that I listed the songs that I recoginized by the time that they appeared, and not all of the songs in order?

[ctswright]

does anyone know why youtube has banned the film? someone told me they posted the film but it was taken down cause youtube does not allow it to be played. that really pissed me off, i just wondered why? maybe something to do with copyrights?

[katiekaite]

Is this based on a true story? I heard it was.

[ctswright]

sort of...i mean the characters are fictional but the killing part of the film is real. sam berkowitz was a real serial killer who randomly gunned down people in nyc in the late 70's.

[diuga1]

You HEARD it was based on a true story?

Wow, what a well informed person you are...

[katiekaite]

Thank you first reply.

To the second, excuse me?

Yes, I heard it was based on a true story. How can I make that any more clear?

Your comment is irrelevant.

[diuga1]

Having never heard of the slayings commited by Berkowitz only proves how ignorant you are.

[katiekaite]

I didn't research the movie, I just watched the trailer. It doesn't exactly display his name across the screen, and this isn't exactly common knowledge. I'm not ignorant, I'm more apathetic.

[Downs2440]

One of the best movies ever made.

[atticus805]

Somebody watched this movie with their mom?

Good Lord, I wouldn't watch this movie with my dog. This movie just makes you feel filthy...kinda wanna watch it by yourself; all the sex and nudity

[manhattan85]

Goodness gracious, what did you masturbate to the Plato's Retreat scene?

[diuga1]

Make sure not to come on the sofa.

[sasaneti]

Love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Casdebom]

1:21 OMG- It's Bob!

[octodor]

Everybody dance now!

[ButterflyQueene07]

Oh MAN, I'll never forget when I was this movie with my mom. I was shaking throughout the whole movie after the first two shootings, and even after the movie I was still shaking. I felt like I was on a rollercoaster. I kept thinking "OK, who's gonna get it next, who's gonna get it next..." It gave me the chills.

[tony7777777777777700]

put the movie up man

[oogp]

that's what I said lol!

[wiljjHeigl]

great fucking movie. this is some amazing shit! spike lee rocks!

[hrjmfjifgbiobnrtgiil]

i cant sleep because of his man...

i know where he used to live...

and where he killed

v.v

im scared

[pjstrupp]

I saw this movie when it first came out on a really HOT night at a theater on the lower east side. Awesome flick.

[whiteipod2000]

this is my favorite movie I saw it for the first time last summer in New York and my Ac was hot Kinda like the perfect setting for this movie lol

[highwind8124]

I would have put a manaquin in a wig in a car with tinted window and just had it move like a puppet. Put it in an area where he frequently strikes. Wait for him. He'd move on it.

[GYPSYQUEEN5050]

love this movie amazing.......crazy shit also lol but funny when john argues with his gf.. hair dressa faggot

[pakard87]

thanks ryy79 ;)

[pakard87]

what is the song name: 52 seg?

thank you people

[ryy79]

''Don't leave me this way'' by Thelma Houston

[chadhoganlive]

amazing movie, john leguizamo is perfect in this role

[thirdshift47]

Excellent flick.

Who could possibly capture the paranoid tension and desperate vitality of 1977's New York better than Spike?

I need to re-up on this joint.

[diuga1]

Hmmm...let's see: a young Scorsese, Alex Payne, 'the John Badham from SNF', even maybe Ben Affleck (check his directorial debut), etc

[thirdshift47]

I'm speaking with regard to the paranoia of entire city.Scorsese's paranoia is alot more existential.Had you mentioned some of the early underground New Yorkers,e.g.,Shirley Clarke,Ken Lucas or even Cassavettes then you might have an argument.

[thirdshift47]

By the way,you could also throw Abel Ferarra in that camp(actual New Yorkers).

I can't even believe that you mentioned Payne and Affleck.

[diuga1]

I agree with the Ferrara 'idea'.

Payne has a very ironic point-o-view that might fit...as of Affleck, you are probably prejudiced about his matineé idol-type looks and refrained from watching his very good directorial bout).

[diuga1]

Oh, please...namedropping underground filmmaker's names may scare off OTHER people, but I won't fall for it...I'm talking about knowing the in-and-outs of the East Coast and the feel of its people.

Cassavetes, though I love LOVE STREAMS and some of HUSBANDS and BOOKIE made small personal films revolving around very few characters and improvised much of the dialogue...I don't think he'd bring the epic/larger-than-life qualities this movie needed.

John Sayles might be ok.

[thirdshift47]

1.)You don't sound scared--just strangely annoyed with anyone that doesn't acquiesce to your infinte movie knowlege.lol

2.)If it's a question of directors 'knowing the in-and-outs of the East Coast and the feel of its people',then you've just made a stronger argument than I ever could have for the names that i've mentioned,much less Spike Lee--the quintessential black NYC filmmaker.

3.)What I was talking about(remember)was a collective tension at that time in NYC...

[thirdshift47]

...and the one film that serve as andequate precursor to 'Summer Of Sam' in this regard is perhaps Jules Dassin's 'The Naked City'.

Lastly--for all your undaunted cinematic authority you still never sufficiently refuted the figures that i've mentioned.

[thirdshift47]

Sorry--'...an adequate precursor.'

[diuga1]

1-No need to be sarcastic regarding my knowledge of film...it is not INFINITE nor UNDAUNTED (as you wrote it), but IT IS vast.

2-You dd not make any 'strong argument'; you've only self-indulgently tried to shove your opinions-as well as groupie-like adulation for Spike- down my throat

3-What I was talking (remeber), was regarding THE FEEL and atmosphere for the people.

[thirdshift47]

LOL!!!

'...groupie-like adulation...'

It only seems fair and sensible to me to mention Spike,in say,a post in which his film is at the center of the discussion--duh(although I dig his flicks,the man is hardly one of my favorite directors).

My comments were obviously strong enough to stand on their own vis-a-vis your responses;that's all that matters.

I guess the only point in this discussion is that we see/feel what we want to see.

[diuga1]

Wrong again.

The post was about who else could have directed the movie.

And if asking "Who could possibly capture the paranoid tension and desperate vitality of 1977's New York better than Spike?"does not fit into major GROUPIE-LIKE ADULATION, I do not know what would.

[thirdshift47]

Mercy!!

Mercy!!--Oh,great film guru;I bow to your

godlike learning and logic.lol

[diuga1]

No need to bow...keep kissing Spike's ass 'til you drop dead from 'Acute Brownnosing'.

[thegirl44]

Having lived in the epicenter of the murders is it not fair to argue that Lee would bring more to the film in the areas of "paranoid tension" and "desperate vitality" than a director who wasn't there?

Having lived in NYC from '77-'79 I feel that this film only scratches the surface of the complete insanity of the summer of '77. We were manipulated by the media to be afraid, every gunshot wound was IMMEDIATELy attributed to SOS, then retracted in the next days papers in light of actual fact.

[25thH]

sounds crazy.

[thegirl44]

The black out, which was really just a series of brownouts, was the most scary for me as I lived in one of those "new fangled" electrical buzzer release security system buildings. I was afraid, of all scenarios possible, that the power would go out fully, the security wouldn't work and SOS would end up in my building. It sounds funny writing it all these years later, but please understand that I was very young and very new to NYC in what was a very scary time.

[Tendoysadie]

Son of Sam was depressing as all hell, but it was a really good movie. There were no bad performances, but Adrien Brody and John Leguizamo were especially good. I'm a huge Adrien Brody fan and sometimes I wish he wouldn't play so many characters who get beaten, killed, or generally fucked up in some way. But he picks roles by what challenges him as an actor, so there are no phoned-in dreamy, easy roles. (sigh)