A Bronx Tale
 | Directed by Robert De Niro Starring: Patrick Borriello, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Clem Caserta, Robert D'Andrea HBO Home Video, 1993, DVD Customer Rating: 125 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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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
Title: A Bronx Tale
Sales Rank: 1814 in DVD
Actor: Patrick Borriello, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Clem Caserta, Robert D'Andrea
Director: Robert De Niro
Studio: HBO Home Video, 1998-05-27, Theatrical Release: 1993-09-29
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 121 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches, 0.15 pounds
- Not Wide-Screen Version
- Do not buy from Amazon marketplace vendor MOVIESONSALE1. They advertised Bronx Tale as wide screen but sent the movie in full screen version with misleading packaging. Now I know why their rating is only 89% satisfaction. They collect money and deposit it and accrue interest and wait for the buyer to complain. I waited over a month to watch this… More reviews
- Great Used DVD
- I bought this DVD used on Saterday & recieved it on Thursday. At first I didn't know what to expect because I had never bought a used DVD before. But to my surprise it was in good working order when I watched it. I feel more confident now about buying a used DVD. More reviews
- Mickey Mantle don't care about you, so why should you care about him?
- But you should care about this classic. This movie passes all the tests. Except the Mario test.… More reviews
- Simply Put, One Great Movie
- Based on Chazz Paliminteri's autobiographical one-man play, "A Bronx Tale" is an impressive coming-of-age story about a young man, Calogero, or "C," as he is called, growing up in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx during the racially turbulent Sixties who is torn between the ethical standards set by his scrupulously honest bus driver father, Lorenzo, and the flashy appeal of "Sonny," the charismatic local crime… More reviews
- IF A MAFIA FLICK CAN BE HEARTWARMING, THIS IS IT!
- This is a film that I can watch a kazillion times and still not get enough. Chazz Palminteri is one of the scariest actors in gangster history. However, his insight into the world that he was born in was touching. Robert De Niro shines as a frustrated father trying to save his son from the streets. More reviews
