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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

526.0. "A Bronx Tale" by NETRIX::michaud (Kenny the gardner) Thu Apr 21 1994 12:04

	This is Robert De Niro's directorial debut.  De Niro plays
	the bus driver father of Calogero in the Italian section of
	the Bronx in the early 1960's.  Two buildings over from where
	Calogero lives is a bar & gambling operation run by a man
	named Sonny.

	One day Calogero is a witness to Sonny shooting a man over a
	parking spot.  Calogero doesn't rat when pressured by the police
	(Calogero is only 9 years old at this time) and from that day
	on Sonny (a bachlor) starts treating Calogero as if he was his
	own son.

	Eight years later Calogero is 17 years old, his father still drives
	a bus, Sonny is more powerful, and his friends are racist.  Calogero
	falls for a tall black woman at his school and the trouble starts
	there ......

	Thumbs up, and a great sound-track from the do-wop sound of the
	later 50's to the changing times/music of the mid/late 60's.

	Joe Pesci has a cameo near the end.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
526.1		35186::BACH	They who know nothing, doubt nothing...	`Thu May 05 1994 17:07`	8
	Great movie! I liked what they did with the Sonny character, too. spoiler RE: .0 "The shooting wasn't really over a parking space..." ;-)
526.2		UHUH::MARISON	Scott Marison	`Mon Aug 01 1994 16:28`	5
	Interesting note about this movie. it's based on a true story. The man who played Sonny is actually the person this story is based upon (i.e. in real life, he was the kid...) /scott
526.3		OOTOOL::CHELSEA	Mostly harmless.	`Tue Aug 02 1994 12:05`	1
	Chaz Palmenteri -- I believe he wrote it.
526.4	his shadow once killed a dog	41174::ISEPDEVELOP		`Fri Aug 26 1994 06:25`	14
	I saw the film last night on video. I thought that it was a really good film, there were some really hilarious sceens in it. Spoilers : The sceen when C is playing dice for Sonny and Sonny is sending all the people he doesn't like to the bathroom, - that just cracked me up. later rodge.
526.5	thumbs up	VNABRW::BARTAK	Andrea Bartak, Vienna, Austria	`Thu Sep 08 1994 08:58`	4
	One of the best movies I've seen recently. The performance of Calogoro (sp.) as a kid and as a young man was very convincing. A.
526.6	Out on videotape	ASDG::HORTON	Paving the Info Highway	`Tue Jan 17 1995 09:45`	7
	My wife and I watched it last weekend on the little screen. She thought the language was a little rough, but we both liked it. Sonny was excellently played. The scene with the bikers in the neighborhood bar was great. -Jerry