Green Apple Entertainment
has tabbed Apr. 16 as the DVD debut date for writer/director (actor and
producer) Stephen “Stix” Josey’s crime drama with a message, Angels
Around Me. The film worked the
festival circuit last year, including a rollout at the Philadelphia Independent
Film Festival in June.
On the surface, Angels
Around Me would appear to be a turf war story very much in the spirit
of a Goodfellas
or New
Jack City. It certainly has all
of the trappings.
Boston crime lord Big D
(Scott Neufville — Pain, Love & Passion, The Last Shot, etc.) is facing
mounting pressures from an up and coming “made man” (with Miami connections)
named Tony (played ruthlessly by Anthony Menounos). His nightclub serves as the front for his
ever-growing criminal operation … he’s young and ambitious and wants to (or is it needs to) make a name for
himself; Big D is in his crosshairs.
Angels Around Me can be enjoyed on that level — as a straight
action film. Action fans can certainly
sink their teeth into a story that pits rival mobs — and their street soldiers
— against each other in a life and death struggle (filmed in and around Boston to
great effect). As a bonus it has a
hard-driving soundtrack that punctuates the action.
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| Big D (Scott Neufville) and his crew take care of some business in Green Apple's Apr. 16 DVD debut of Angels Around Me. |
However, there is more
going on here as Big D’s would-be bodyguards — Mark Hayes (Derrick Hammond) and
John Baker (Stephen Josey — long-time music producer and
composer-turned-filmmaker) — have another, far more important, mission on their
plate than just keeping Big D’s rivals from taking him out.
Not all is as it
seems. Good, evil … it comes in many
forms. Even the local police work at
cross-purposes; trust here comes at a premium.
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