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Robert De Niro,
Robert De Niro,
Chazz Palminteri,
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Robert De Niro,
Robert De Niro
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: HBO Home Video
: Drama, Coming of Age , Gangsters
: 122 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder, he honors the code of the streets and refuses to tell the cops. Sonny befriends him and introduces the impressionable youngster to the creature comforts that mob connections can bring. But though he idolizes Sonny, the boy loves and respects his decent, honest father. It takes a major tragedy for the 17-year-old boy (now played by Lillo Brancato) to decide his true course in life. Though titled A Bronx Tale and set in the Bronx of the 1960s, the film was actually shot in the somewhat safer environs of Brooklyn and Queens. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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| coming of age with de niro as your father (and director)
by psychodrama311
June 15, 2003 - 12:26 AM PDT
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oh, mr de niro's directorial debut proves strong and lively, evidenced by how close he kept to a topic that's like home for him; a young, starry eyed italian kid growing up little italy in the late 60's. as the naive protagonist calogero, or 'C' as he is nicknamed, lillo brancato gives a great performance as a young man torn between by his strict father and the charisma of neighborhood crime boss sonny (played to the hilt by chazz palminteri, who also wrote the play that this movie is based on). i don't really consider this a mafia movie, it's much more of a coming-of-age tale. however, the background mr de niro provides is so intimate and thorough that you wish for another film chronicling the life of sonny. finally a great actor who can direct. here's to hoping mr de niro get's a few more movie's under his director's hat.
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