A Bronx Tale (1993)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 1, 1993

Running Time: 122 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Jr, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks, Katherine Narducci, Clem Caserta, Alfred Sauchelli, Jr, Frank Pietrangolare, Joe Pesci

director: Robert De Niro

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.

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…