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details
Release Date: Jan 1, 1993
Running Time: 122 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction--verboten in his neighborhood--for a beautiful black girl.
cast + crew
Director
Lorenzo Anello
Sonny
Calogero Anello
Calogero Anello
Jane
Rosina Anello
Jimmy Whispers
Bobby Bars
Danny K O
Carmine
Play as Source Material
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reviews
December 8, 2000
Robert De Niro debuts as a director with this explosively entertaining film version of Chazz Palminteri's 1989 off-Broadway hit. Palminteri wrote the play to give himself work as an actor; for inspiration he used his own childhood on the mean streets of the Bronx in the 1960s. Calogero, the kid in the play, has a problem: Does he model himself on bus driver Lorenzo, his hard-working father, or gun-toting Sonny, the local wiseguy?
Onstage, Palminteri played all the parts. Onscreen, De Niro plays… 
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