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Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah

Picture if you will two cousins, Charlie (Mickey Rourke) and Paulie (Eric Roberts), prowling the mean streets of New York's Little Italy. Charlie is reasonably put-together, a maitre d' at a chic café...( read more  read more... ) who aspires to running his own restaurant someday. Paulie is an incurable flake who can't resist a temptation or a goofball scheme, couldn't tell the truth to save his soul, and keeps splashing Charlie with the street slop of his slewing trajectory through life. This includes drawing him into the circles of Mob crime, most especially Paulie's boss, that supreme sleazebag "Bedbug Eddie" (Burt Young).

Michael Cimino is said to have had a hand in this movie, though the credited director is Stuart Rosenberg--an impersonal craftsman often hired in midshoot after the star and a more volatile director had parted company. This helps account for the picture's overall lack of rhythm and its wavering between overemphatic, Ethnic-with-a-capital-E idiosyncrasy, and low-key befuddlement. Still, it has its charms, most of them deriving from a terrific cast. At the time it came out, in the summer of 1984, Rourke and Roberts were both exciting, unpredictable talents; Roberts in particular had an amazing talent for being somebody brand new--psychologically, even physically--in every film he made. But even though they're hitting on all cylinders, the boys are quietly upstaged by some redoubtable old pros: the great Kenneth McMillan, the ineffable M. Emmet Walsh, and--scoring her umpteenth Oscar® nomination as the mother of an ill-fated cop--Miss Geraldine Page. --Richard T. Jameson

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R, 120 min.

Directed by: Michael Cimino, Stuart Rosenberg

Release Date: June 22, 1984

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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2001

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  • middleeasternfilms
    February 3, 2009
    middleeasternfilms
    This film almost lost me with how utterly annoying Eric Roberts is in it. But, he's an integral part of this story about family bonds and friendship and a burglary-gone-wrong in the center of it all. Rourke was a rising star at this point and showcased his trademark smooth style....( read more) Points also for Frank Vincent being in this.
  • clooneyfan
    January 18, 2009
    clooneyfan
    I wasn't impressed with this
  • binky013
    April 28, 2006
    binky013
    The summer wind came blowing in across the sea . . .



    Mickey Rourke's best performance ever. Might be Eric Roberts best ever as well. Can't beat that Sinatra sound. This is another one that looks back at Saturday Night Fever.

  • nickymo89
    March 14, 2009
    nickymo89
    Decent family/mob-ish movie based in New York's Little Italy in the mid 80's. Mickey Rourke is fantastic and Eric Roberts shows a flair for where he could have gone as an actor (even though his character is BEYOND annoying) and great to see Burt Young chewing up the scenery as Be...( read more)dbug Eddie. The problem with this film is the overall timing and lack of any sort of rythm. At times, it goes completely over the top. It has also dated rather poorly particularly when compared to the other more impressive mob flicks.
  • jallyjay
    September 6, 2009
    jallyjay
    cool to see the old cas of players
  • mpaesan34
    August 14, 2009
    mpaesan34
    Mickey and Eric and Daryl Classic film..
  • debbiekimpel
    June 28, 2009
    debbiekimpel
    I love this movie. I saw it when I was in my 20's and it left a huge impression on me!! I want to watch it but do not know how to!
  • johnandrewchristie
    March 26, 2009
    johnandrewchristie
    a very well acted film with three strong performances from eric roberts mickey rourke and darryl hannah
  • alienun711
    January 23, 2009
    alienun711
    mickey rourke
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    eric roberts

    daryl hannah
  • pjboyce601
    September 18, 2008
    pjboyce601
    mickey rourke and eric roberts as two pseudo-Italians is pretty comical at best.

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