The King Of Staten Island, 2020 is an American comedy-drama starring SNL cast member Pete Davidson, directed by Judd Apatow (HBO’s Crashing, another absolute favourite of mine with philosophical underpinnings on what it means to struggle and achieve as an artist) and written by Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus. Dark, funny and tender, The King of Staten Island is largely based on Pete’s real life struggles with depression and suicide after his father died a fire fighter on September 11 when he was 7. In this version, Pete plays a mid twenty something aspiring tattoo artist whose aspirations have stalled. Unable to get out from under the roof of his mother (Marisa Tomei)’s and stuck in a time capsule smoking pot with his buds on the basement couch, Pete finds everyone else around him evolving: his younger sister (Maude Apatow) is moving away to college, his mother starts dating another fireman (Bill Burr), his girlfriend (Bel Powley) becoming a city planner and wanting to make their relationship public and official, Pete just can’t seem to try nor commit to anything when everything can just go blank in a blink. Nothing resolves until Pete insults then befriends a senior fireman who once new his dad, played by a former fireman (Steve Buscemi), need I say more?
A movie about loss, heroism, getting your act together and floundering and family. I loved every bit of this flick by Judd Apatow? Just ApaWow!
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