A Bronx Tale
Starring:
Robert DeNiro
Chazz Palminteri
In this directorial debut, two-time Academy Award-winner Robert DeNiro stars as Lorenzo Anello, a hard-working bus driver who must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from fallinf into a life of crime. The streets of the Bronx are a tough place for a kid to grow up, you learn fast or lose everything. Lorenzo's son Calogero learns about the virtues of hand, honest work from his father who owns nothing but his integrity; but he learns about easy money and life on the streets from the manwho owns them, a mobster called Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). Now Calogero must choose between earning respect like his father, or commanding it like Sonny. Always one step away from a broken bottle, a pistol whipping or a shotgun blast, one young man, torn beyween two worlds just a city block apart, is about to learn that the streets run two ways. For every cent of easy money, there's a tough, and sometimes deadly, lesson to be learned.
Has a great soundtrack too!!!!