In this well worth seeing picture there is nostalgic friendship , humor , drama and an inter-racial love story . Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) is the big man in the Bronx neighborhood of an Italian small boy named
Calogero (Francis Capra) . A shooting witnessed by the little boy is the starting point of a peculiar relationship between a child and a feared gangster . However , his kind daddy , bus driver Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) , disapproves this relation . As Calogero grows up under the wing of both men, his good father and his protector goldfather . Meanwhile , his neighborhood cronies get involved in theft , violence , use of guns, and racial struggles . Then Calogero falls for an African/American girl, and then things go wrong . One man lives in the neighborhood, another man owns it. A devoted father battles the local crime boss for the life of his son.
A sensitive and nostalgic film with lasting bond between a gangster and a kid , emotion , love and enjoyable father/son relationship . Adding a special romance between the Italian starring and an African-American teen , then things don't get any easier. This quintaessential Bronx saga about boyfriendship and wiseguys or goodfellas at turns funny and violent , as the familiar elements of the genre are all strongly and gratingly in place . Being based on facts , in fact starring is really a teen and a mobster , dealing with a coming-of-age story . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay , being adapted from the play written by Chazz Palminteri, whose real name is Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri. In fact , it is adapted from his autobiographical one-man play. As Palminteri was involved in every aspect of writing , casting , scouting locations, editing, music and general production. De Niro approached him to purchase the film rights , then Palminteri agreed with him to go into a fifty/fifty partnership, and a series of conditions , as long as De Niro could direct and play Lorenzo . Cared pacing , well photographed by Reynaldo Villalobos and adequate musical score by Butch Barbella with full of songs at the time accompanying the moving action , adding amazing , senseless bursts of violence . The movie cast is frankly fabulous . The extraordinary cast includes two Oscar winners: Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci ; and one Oscar nominee: Chazz Palminteri. Four protagonists are frankly magnificent . Francis Capra , and Calogero (age 17) playing splendidly as Lillo Brancato who is torn between his own natural honesty as well as his fascination with Sonny magnetically performed by Chazz Palminteri and concerning his leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love. While Robert De Niro playing in his usual style as an everyday man attempting to protect his son from the influence of the mob. Other fine secondaries as Katherine Narducci, who played his mother, both she and Lillo Brancato, starred in The Sopranos (1999) and Taral Hicks as the beautiful girlfriend teen .
The motion picture was compellingly directed by Robert De Niro in his film debut , previously to a long career including a string of successes as an actor , such as : Mean Streets , Racing Bull , Taxi Driver , Untouchables , Goodfellas , Casino , Midnight Run , Jacknife , Fifteen Minutes , The Score and many others . Long time after , he directed another nice movie : The Good Shepherd (2006) with Matt Damon. Rating : 7.5/10 , notable , better than average . The picture will appeal to Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri fans.
A sensitive and nostalgic film with lasting bond between a gangster and a kid , emotion , love and enjoyable father/son relationship . Adding a special romance between the Italian starring and an African-American teen , then things don't get any easier. This quintaessential Bronx saga about boyfriendship and wiseguys or goodfellas at turns funny and violent , as the familiar elements of the genre are all strongly and gratingly in place . Being based on facts , in fact starring is really a teen and a mobster , dealing with a coming-of-age story . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay , being adapted from the play written by Chazz Palminteri, whose real name is Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri. In fact , it is adapted from his autobiographical one-man play. As Palminteri was involved in every aspect of writing , casting , scouting locations, editing, music and general production. De Niro approached him to purchase the film rights , then Palminteri agreed with him to go into a fifty/fifty partnership, and a series of conditions , as long as De Niro could direct and play Lorenzo . Cared pacing , well photographed by Reynaldo Villalobos and adequate musical score by Butch Barbella with full of songs at the time accompanying the moving action , adding amazing , senseless bursts of violence . The movie cast is frankly fabulous . The extraordinary cast includes two Oscar winners: Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci ; and one Oscar nominee: Chazz Palminteri. Four protagonists are frankly magnificent . Francis Capra , and Calogero (age 17) playing splendidly as Lillo Brancato who is torn between his own natural honesty as well as his fascination with Sonny magnetically performed by Chazz Palminteri and concerning his leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love. While Robert De Niro playing in his usual style as an everyday man attempting to protect his son from the influence of the mob. Other fine secondaries as Katherine Narducci, who played his mother, both she and Lillo Brancato, starred in The Sopranos (1999) and Taral Hicks as the beautiful girlfriend teen .
The motion picture was compellingly directed by Robert De Niro in his film debut , previously to a long career including a string of successes as an actor , such as : Mean Streets , Racing Bull , Taxi Driver , Untouchables , Goodfellas , Casino , Midnight Run , Jacknife , Fifteen Minutes , The Score and many others . Long time after , he directed another nice movie : The Good Shepherd (2006) with Matt Damon. Rating : 7.5/10 , notable , better than average . The picture will appeal to Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri fans.