It all began in Brighton Beach in 1994. In this south Brooklyn neighborhood, where the Russian-American Jewish community has rebuilt a little piece of Eastern Europe, Tim Roth plays the role of Joshua, a hit man banished by his father several years prior and forced to return to the place where he grew up. Featuring themes of family, debt, and violence, Roger Ebert has described Little Odessa as neither a family drama nor a crime melodrama. James Gray is 25 years old and refuses to be categorized. The stage for Paper Tiger is already set.
