Sometimes laborious, sometimes mildly funny Brooklyn jive from the head writer at Seinfeld, Sam Henry Kass. I didn’t mind watching this shaggy-dog story most of the time, but I came away feeling that the actors had much more fun than I did. With Nick and John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Ray Boom Boom Mancini, Holt McCallany, Anne Meara, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jennifer Beals. (JR)