Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 03/31/1998
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/2/1
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video
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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