Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial debut with this production and, except for a little stiffness, does very well by the characters and their world. The story does not go precisely where one might expect it to go: Palminteri knows better than to force the central figure to choose between the two most important men in his life, and he doesn’t fill time with stock drama about crime or family conflict. Joe Pesci makes an extremely effective and uncredited appearance at the end as a man who doesn’t have to do more than speak softly to communicate how dangerous he is. –Tom Keogh
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March 4, 2010
#1
This was not a great movie like everyone thinks it is. I really didnt get into it. I thought the actors portrait of “the mob” was not right at all. Very Very off.
March 4, 2010
#2
This film is way too superficial and phony. It tries to “moralize” too much, and none of the characters comes across as believable. One of the worst movies of all time.
March 4, 2010
#3
This movie is way over-hyped and i have changed my mind about this movie……..this is a love story gone wrong……this does not belong in a collection of mob movies…..i am a mob movie collector and this movie just doesn’t cut it……this may please your girlfriend…..this is almost comparable to Chaz’s performance in Boss of Bosses, IT [WAS BAD]….!!!
March 4, 2010
#4
The scenes where Calogero runs are just sad to me. The poor guy has obviously never been a normal kid. He looks ridiculous. This is why the Fonz never ran on “Happy Days”.
March 4, 2010
#5
it was december 10 a saturday night the actor who played sunny n the bronx tale was involve in robbery along with someone else they both tried to break in to someone’s house and a cop tried to stop them but the other robber not the actor shot at the cop and he was later announced dead he was only 28 years old it is sad because the guy who starred in the bronx tale was young as well he had everything going from him from adequate looks to his acting ability he was also in a movie with denzel washintgon and gen heckman that was another successful flick what makes this news more surpising the actor and other guy is looking up to anywhere from 25 years to life in prison 10 years ago sunny was trying to send a message to all the teenages on earth which was to don’t waste your talent or god will take it away here he is in his 30 years may never be on the big screen again because of him following someone