Build a movie plot around this: Frankie's father is dying of what disease? a heart condition
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The film begins with stock footage scenes of warfare in Vietnam. An American soldier named Frankie (Ricky Giovinazzo) is seen running alone through the jungle swamp as his voice narrates. He explains that he "goes back there every night" right before he wakes up in bed with his wife in their squalid NYC apartment located somewhere in northern Staten Island. The distorted cries of his baby are heard, and his pregnant wife wakes up to tend to the boy. They argue over Frankie's unemployment and their son's health. The baby is a mutant, portrayed by a puppet. Frankie assumes it was a result of his exposure to chemical weapons used during the war.The bulk of the film consists of long sequences of urban blight underscored by Ricky Giovinazzo's synthesizer soundtrack as Frankie walks the streets and interacts with various people. A homeless junkie walks up to Frankie and asks for some spare change, but Frankie refuses because he has no money. The junkie neverless works up enough dollars from begging and buys some heroin from the local kingpin, Paco. The junkie desperately searches for a needle to shoot up with. The junkie resorts to dumping the drugs directly onto a wound he opens in his arm with a rusted coat hanger wire and passes out. A random woman walks by and steals his gun and ammunition, putting them in her purse.Meanwhile, Frankie waits in line outside an unemployment office. Frankie kills time entertaining a teenage prostitute. When he tells the prostitute that he has no money to pay for her services, she tells him to get lost. Soon after Frankie leaves her alone, the prostitute's pimp, who happens to be Paco, shows up and after seeing the amount of money she has, brutally beats up the teen prostitute for not making enough money.There is no work for Frankie at the unemployment office. Typical of the movie, unexplained arbitrary things happen, such as one social worker asking another if he's seen his Veg-O-Matic. Frankie's social worker spaces out during their meeting and says, "Life is hot, and because...