Fingers

Fingers (1978)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 64% of users liked it
    (1,026 ratings)

Jimmy Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) wants to be a concert pianist. Jimmy's dad, Ben Angelelli (Michael V. Gazzo), wants his son to go into the family business. So far, so banal. But the "family business" depicted in Fingers is organized crime, and therein lies the film's perverse appeal. Fingers… More

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed By
James Toback
Written By
James Toback
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Mar 2, 1978 Wide
On DVD
Nov 5, 2002
Media Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Portrait of the artist as a young thug

  • Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

    Wow. Cool.

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    Probably one of the most naked psychodramas of its decade.

  • Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

    A penetrating portrait of tortured, impotent masculinity and the foolishness of attempting to be something you're not.

  • Scott Weinberg, DVD Clinic

    Fingers works for a handful of reasons - not the least of which is a phenomenal early performance by Harvey Keitel.

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  • Eric B


    "Fingers" may be a homely stepbrother to Robert De Niro's classic Martin Scorsese vehicles, but it's an interesting curiosity (if hardly a great movie). Harvey Keitel breaks out as a leading man, carrying every scene as Jimmy, an immature, anxious twentysomething… More

  • Lesley N


    Rough and ready original version of the French THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, with Harvey Keitel torn between the two career choices of being a classical pianist and roughing up people who owe his dad money. To my mind this, the original, is the better film, butthat's only because I… More

  • Christopher B


    Keitel plays a sensitive, womanizing mafia collector in Tobak's debut film. Heavily criticized on it's release, it has thankfully gained a cult audience thanks to people rediscovering it when Keitel got big again in the early 90s. A must see for fans of American seventies… More

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