Morrissey needed French financing to make his darkly comedic Alphabet City-set crime drama starring Brazilian actress Marília Pêra (Pixote), strutting her stuff as a drug queenpin who drafts underage boys into a bloody turf war. The music score is by Coati Mundi (billed here as Andy Hernandez) of Kid Creole and the Coconuts, but the pop group venerated onscreen is Menudo.