The Pope of Greenwich Village

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Plot: 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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  • barisi22v
    barisi22v
    5.0 Stars
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    September 4, 2008
    along with the saint of fort washington, one of my favourites of all time.. though i wont say the best of all time.
  • TrevorJ72
    TrevorJ72
    1.0 Star
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    April 14, 2008
    First off, Mickey Rourke looks about as Italian as Richard Pryor. Secondly, simply having Eric Roberts in the cast list automatically reduces your film to B-Movie status. This was so bad I didn't even finish it. Don't tell me the ending, unless you want me to fall asleep on you.
  • ouisch27
    ouisch27
    4.0 Stars
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    October 20, 2006
    Great performances all around in this charming picture. A mob picture dealing with the daily lives of small timers. Eric Robersts steals the show
  • binky013
    binky013
    3.5 Stars
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    April 28, 2006
    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.

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