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 O'Malley… 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

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 44 min.
Directed By: Rupert Hitzig, Jason O'Malley
Genres: Drama

On DVD: Feb 13, 1991
Studio: Trimark

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Cast

            Brooke Shields as Stephanie Bloom

            Jason O'Malley as Dean Costello

            Sherilyn Fenn as Lucy Costello

            Tony Dean Fields as Manny Santana

            Burt Young as Luca Garibaldi

            Anthony Franciosa as Angelo Carnivale

            Nick Cassavetes as Mikey Acosta

            Joe Pantoliano
            
            Meg Register as Candy

            John Viezzi as Shane Costello

            Tony Lo Bianco as Angelo

            Jim Boeke as Burt

            Michael Bofshever as Dr. Sinclair

            Carlos Cervantes as Jose M.

            Frank Collison as Spider

            Vincent Curto as Gus

            Drummond Erskine as Policeman

            Bob Giovanne as Paddy

            Redmond Gleeson as Dempsey

            Elias Koteas
            
            Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini as Aldo

            Albert Michel Jr. as Juan

            Vincent Pastore as Fat Tony

            Anthony Richards as Dean's Neighbor on Stoop

            Anthony Russell as Sally

            Teri Shields as Biker

            Dan Tullis Jr. as Tank

            Ellis Williams as Slick Shot

            Rupert Hitzig as Dean's Neighbor on Stoop

            Michael Russo as Paco

            Maria Celedonio as Maria M.

            Robby Robinson as Robert
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