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{{Short description|1999 US crime-drama film directed by Spike Lee}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Summer of Sam
| image = Summer Of Sam (movie).jpg
| alt = Newspaper cover pages with red lettering daubed over it
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Spike Lee]]
| producer = [[Jon Kilik]] <br />Spike Lee
| writer = [[Victor Colicchio]] <br />[[Michael Imperioli]] <br />Spike Lee
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[John Leguizamo]]
* [[Adrien Brody]]
* [[Mira Sorvino]]
* [[Jennifer Esposito]]
* [[Anthony LaPaglia]]
}}
| music = [[Terence Blanchard]]
| editing = [[Barry Alexander Brown]]  
| cinematography = [[Ellen Kuras]]
| studio = [[Touchstone Pictures]]<br />[[40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks]]
| distributor = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Pictures Distribution]]
| released = {{Film date|1999|05|20|[[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|1999|07|02|United States}}
| runtime = 142 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 142:07--><ref>{{cite web|title=''Summer of Sam'' (18)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/AVF158959 |website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|access-date=November 15, 2013}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
| country = United States
| language = English<br />Italian
| budget = $22 million
| gross = $19.3 million<ref name = BOM>{{mojo title|summerofsam}}</ref> 
}}

'''''Summer of Sam''''' is a 1999 American [[Crime film|crime]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film about the 1977 [[David Berkowitz]] (Son of Sam) serial murders and their effect on a group of fictional residents of an [[Italian-American]] neighborhood in [[The Bronx]] in the late 1970s. It focuses on two young men from the neighborhood: Vinny ([[John Leguizamo]]), whose marriage is faltering due to his cheating, and Ritchie ([[Adrien Brody]]), Vinny's childhood friend who has embraced [[punk rock|punk]] fashion and music.

The murder investigation and other contemporary events, such as the [[New York City blackout of 1977]] and the [[New York Yankees]]' [[1977 New York Yankees season|winning season]], provide a backdrop to the stories of Vinny, Ritchie, their families and friends.<ref name=tunzelmann>{{cite news |last=Von Tunzelmann |first=Alex |date=2012-04-26 |title=Summer of Sam is an almost boringly flawless portrait of a real-life monster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/26/summer-sam-spike-lee |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=2017-02-19 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141007190035/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/26/summer-sam-spike-lee |archive-date=2014-10-07 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film was directed and co-produced by [[Spike Lee]], who also co-wrote the film with [[Michael Imperioli]] and [[Victor Colicchio]]. The film was a box-office disappointment.