A Bronx Tale

Just when I thought Goodfellas was my all time favourite movie, BAM...A Bronx Tale came along! Like critics said, it's like Goodfellas with heart. Seriously, one of the best films I have ever seen. Definitely a must watch.

Yeah, but a bit moralistic and religious. An old movie that just about creeps into the 21st century with entertainment value in tact. Good for a rainy Tuesday matinee when you know you should be doing something more productive

I first saw this film about ten years ago on TV. To my knowledge has only been on once since, so rented it because had found it enoyable.

It didn't disappoint, although not quite as gripping as I remembred.

De Niro is great, as normal, and the film carries an underlying message about loyalty and standing for what you believe in (De Niro's character). Violent in places but still a good watch depicting a time when people were not quite so bland. Great soundtrack as well.

This is the story of a struggle for a child's allegiance between his father and a local Mafia boss who was saved by the boy's unwillingness to implicate him in a murder and who becomes a powerful mentor and role model for him. The boy, with the unlikely name Calogero, is renamed as C by his Mafia friend and is portrayed brilliantly as a 9 year old by Francis Capra and as a teenager by Lillo Brancato. Robert de Nero, who also directed, is the bus driver father, Lorenzo Anello and Chaz Palminteri who wrote the screen play is Sonny Lospecchio the mafioso. Anello represents respect for a decent society and the kind of toughness which enables him to resist all the potentials for criminal behaviour which the environment offers. C is torn between his love for his father and the excitement of the sort of world inhabited by Sonny who, as the film proceeds, we see developing his own kind of love for the boy.

The film is set in a tough American neighbourhood and an atmosphere of suppressed violence is always present. An graphic example of its release is seen when Sonny's heavies demolish a group of Hell's Angels who have descended on a neighbouring bar in a brilliantly staged fight scene. The climax of the film revolves around a clash between Black and Italian youths which has been triggered by a love affair between C and Jane, a Black girl played by Taral Hicks, which brings the film to a literally explosive end in which Sonny saves C from a terrible death. To say more would introduce spoilers. This film deals with deep emotional factors in the father-son relationship and is brilliantly acted by all principals of course but also by the supporting cast. I have no hesitation in awarding 5 Stars

I've always wanted to watch this and I found it quite sorry. Maybe it's because I just love Italian men :P

Very nice film but this isn't really a gangster movie - I thought it'd be more gangster but it's more lovely than gritty.