Backstreet Dreams (Backstreet Strays ) (1990)
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Not to be confused with the oft-filmed Fannie Hurst yarn Back Street, Backstreet Dreams is a contemporary drama of Humanity vs. the Streets. Jason O'Malley plays a New York hoodlum who doesn't trust his wife Sherilyn Fenn as far as he can throw her (and for good reason). The only person… More Not to be confused with the oft-filmed Fannie Hurst yarn Back Street, Backstreet Dreams is a contemporary drama of Humanity vs. the Streets. Jason O'Malley plays a New York hoodlum who doesn't trust his wife Sherilyn Fenn as far as he can throw her (and for good reason). The only person O'Malley truly cares for is his autistic son Shane, played by twin children Joseph and John Viezzi. Brooke Shields (who's better than you might think) enters the scene as a PhD candidate who hopes to get through to Shane. Now it is the unfaithful Fenn's turn to seethe with jealousy as Shields applies her "force holding" theory to Shane, she and O'Malley draw closer together. O'Malley is so taken by Shields' compassion that he severs his mob ties--but Big Boss Burt Young won't let him off so easy, and uses Shane as a "bargaining chip." Backstreet Dreams appears at times to be three films jumbled together; every time a story element starts rolling, it is exiled to the back burner in favor of another gratuitous subplot. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Rupert Hitzig, Jason O'Malley
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- Studio
- Trimark
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Cast
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Brooke Shields
as Stephanie Bloom
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Jason O'Malley
as Dean Costello
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Sherilyn Fenn
as Lucy Costello
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Tony Dean Fields
as Manny Santana
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Burt Young
as Luca Garibaldi
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Anthony Franciosa
as Angelo Carnivale
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Nick Cassavetes
as Mikey Acosta
- Joe Pantoliano
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Meg Register
as Candy
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John Viezzi
as Shane Costello
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Tony Lo Bianco
as Angelo
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Jim Boeke
as Burt
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Michael Bofshever
as Dr. Sinclair
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Carlos Cervantes
as Jose M.
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Frank Collison
as Spider
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Vincent Curto
as Gus
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Drummond Erskine
as Policeman
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Bob Giovanne
as Paddy
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Redmond Gleeson
as Dempsey
- Elias Koteas
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Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini
as Aldo
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Albert Michel Jr.
as Juan
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Vincent Pastore
as Fat Tony
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Anthony Richards
as Dean's Neighbor on Stoop
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Anthony Russell
as Sally
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Teri Shields
as Biker
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Dan Tullis Jr.
as Tank
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Ellis Williams
as Slick Shot
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Rupert Hitzig
as Dean's Neighbor on Stoop
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Michael Russo
as Paco
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Maria Celedonio
as Maria M.
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Robby Robinson
as Robert
