A needy, greedy and predictably seedy community of users, abusers, gangbangers, deadbeats, pimps and prostitutes is brought to life — such as it is — in “Life Is Hot in Cracktown.” An aggressively ...

If feverish enactments of rape, murder, drug taking, child abuse and transgender prostitution in the inner city fit that description, so be it. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press As for the ...

Shannyn Sossamon, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Lara Flynn Boyle, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Mark Webber and Tony Plana will star in Buddy Giovinazzo's urban drug-addiction drama "Life Is Hot in Cracktown." By Gregg ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Rapaport and Kerry Washington are attached to star in the drug-fueled indie urban drama "Life Is Hot in Cracktown" along with Evan Ross, the 18-year-old son of ...

She's gone gay on film twice, stumped for Obama, and held her own with Bill Maher. Now Kerry Washington tackles her toughest role to date: as a transsexual, heroin-addicted prostitute in Life Is Hot ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Shannyn Sossamon, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Lara Flynn Boyle have joined the cast of the indie drug-addiction drama "Life Is Hot in Cracktown." Sossamon will play a woman ...

David Lazarus talks with Jean Oppenheimer of Village Voice Media and Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor about this week's new releases, including Transformers, My Sister’s Keeper, Cheri, ...