Mixed Blood (film)

Mixed Blood is a 1985 film directed by Paul Morrissey and John Leguizamo's film debut.
== Plot ==
Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of underaged Brazilian kids in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.
== Principal cast ==
Actor 	Role
Marília Pêra 	Rita La Punta
Richard Ulacia 	Thiago
Rodney Harvey 	Jose
Linda Kerridge 	Carol
Geraldine Smith 	Toni
Angel David 	Juan
Roberto Luis Santana	Assassin
== Critical reception ==
Vincent Canby of The New York Times enjoyed the film:
“	Paul Morrissey continues to be a cinema original and his Mixed Blood, a most unorthodox look at life in the drug trade on New York's Lower East Side, is successively comic, brutal, primitive and sophisticated - a comedy with the manners of a live-action cartoon for jaded adults.[1]	”
However, the reviewer at Time Out did not care for it:
“	[The film is] Often taken for black comedy, its lurid visuals, ragbag assortment of performance styles, and the succession of ambushes, escapes and showdowns suggest something closer to Victorian melodrama.[2]	”