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A Bronx Tale: Directed by Robert De Niro. With Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra. An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
- (164K)
- Crime, Drama
- Robert De Niro
- 1993-10-01
Much of the acting was bad (teenage C, Jane, C’s mom, many of the mobsters), the story was extremely thin and corny, several plot points were not credible, and the obnoxious soundtrack did most of the heavy lifting to try to add “emotion” and “tension.”
- A Bad Experience as A Bouncer Inspired Chazz Palminteri to Write The Play.
- Palminteri Would only Sell The Film Rights If He Could Play Sonny.
- Palminteri Wanted to Make A Film About “The Working Man.”
- Robert de Niro Wanted to Work with Kids from The neighborhood.
- De Niro Warned Lillo Brancato About The Dangers of Fame.
- De Niro Asked Martin Scorsese For Directing Advice.
- The Real Eddie Mush Played Eddie mush.
- De Niro Wanted to Play Against type.
- The Calogero-Jane Romance Almost Got Cut.
- Tommy Mottola Made The Musical happen.
While living in Los Angeles and trying to be an actor in the ’80s, Palminteri worked various jobs, including a gig as a bouncer at a nightclub. “One night a guy was going to come in, and he was very rude to me,” Palminteri toldThe A.V. Club. “I told him I wasn’t going to let him in, he got mad and told me that I’d be fired in 15 minutes. I said, ‘S...
Palminteri's play garnered enough buzz that studios offered anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million to purchase the story rights, but they didn’t want Palminteri to act in it, as he wasn’t a big enough name. De Niro saw the play and decided to help Palminteri out. “At first, I didn’t want anything in the ingredients if I did a film of it—I wanted a to...
In real life, Palminteri’s father was a school bus driver and a saxophone player. “Too many movies speak about us as just gombas or Mafioso,” Palminteri toldRoger Ebert. “I wanted a movie about the working man, about a real Italian-American community. The real fabric comes from working men. My dad was similar to Lorenzo. I used to see him put his b...
In casting the film, De Niro wanted to hire non-actors from New York. “One day Marco Greco, who was casting for us, was on Jones Beach and he saw this kid and asked him if he wanted to audition for us,” De Niro told Roger Ebert. “The kid says, ‘You’re not looking for me. You’re looking for my brother.’ And his brother, Lillo Brancato, came out of t...
Soon after the film’s release, Brancato became an in-demand actor, even starring in season two of The Sopranos. But his on-screen father warned him about the trappings of fame. “De Niro came to my house in spring or summer of 1993, not only to warn me, but also my parents,” Brancato told People. “My parents are Italian immigrants and knew nothing a...
Because it was De Niro’s first time directing, he turned to regular collaborator Martin Scorsese for some tips. "I asked certain things about the way you do this or that," De Niro told InterviewMagazine. "I also talked to other actors who have turned directors, like Danny DeVito. I guess I felt that I’d be okay. I didn’t want to build up some kind ...
Eddie Mush was a gambler both in the movie and in real life. During a racetrack scene in the movie, Mush, Sonny, and Calogero bet on the same horse, Kryptonite, and lose. “We were looking for someone to play Bad Luck Eddie Mush, the guy who is a jinx,” Palminteri toldRoger Ebert. "We couldn’t find anyone. Finally I told Bob [De Niro] the real guy, ...
In 1993, De Niro told InterviewMagazine he thought casting himself in the movie would “get it off the ground more easily.” He had already promised Palminteri the role of Sonny, a part De Niro could’ve played, but the role of Lorenzo—Calogero's father—was more interesting to De Niro. “I hadn’t done this kind of part, and it’s something really differ...
One of the film's main storylines focuses on Calogero's romance with Jane (Taral Hicks), a black girl from the neighborhood. De Niro told Interview Magazine the plotline almost got excised, but he wanted to keep it in. “People would say, ‘Just make it between a father and a son—that’s really a story in itself,’ which it was. But I felt that to take...
The chairman and CEO of Sony Music—who’s also known as Mariah Carey’s first husband—helped get the musical off the ground. In an interview with The A.V. Club, Palminteri saidit was the Bronx-born Tommy Mottola who suggested adapting the film into a Broadway musical. (He ended up producing it.) “Even though I had been trying to do one for years, it ...
- Garin Pirnia
Sep 30, 2023 · Released on 29 September 1993, A Bronx Tale not only encapsulates the essence of a bygone era but also is an exploration of the transformation since. Thespian Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with the adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-man play of the same name.
A Bronx Tale premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 1993, and released in the United States on September 29, 1993. The film achieved limited commercial success, grossing over $17 million domestically.
As he grows into a teenager on the streets of the Bronx in the socially turbulent 1960s, Calogero (Lillo Brancato) gets taken under the wing of neighborhood mobster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri).
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- Crime, Drama
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A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American crime drama film adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name, directed by Robert De Niro, which first premiered at the Toronto Festival of Festivals on September 14, 1993 and theatrically by Savoy Pictures on September 29, 1993.
