A Bronx Tale Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert De Niro
Genres: Drama
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Robert_De_Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz_Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis_Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz_Palminteri). When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder, he honors the code of the streets and refuses to tell the cops. Sonny befriends him and introduces the impressionable youngster to the creature comforts that mob connections can bring. But though he idolizes Sonny, the boy loves and respects his decent, honest father. It takes a major tragedy for the 17-year-old boy (now played by Lillo_Brancato) to decide his true course in life. Though titled A Bronx Tale and set in the Bronx of the 1960s, the film was actually shot in the somewhat safer environs of Brooklyn and Queens. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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