A Bronx Tale

Drama set in 1960s New York about an Italian American boy surrounded by conflicting influences while growing up in the Bronx. The boy’s father is almost powerless to do anything when his son becomes increasingly corrupted by a neighbourhood gangster. The two father figures – one hard-working and loving, the other involved in dangerous, underworld activities – exert conflicting pressures and beliefs., Robert De Niro makes his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s one-character play. De Niro’s role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero. The top dog in Calogero’s Bronx neighborhood is flashy “wiseguy” Sonny. When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder, he honors the code of the streets and refuses to tell the cops. Sonny befriends him and introduces the impressionable youngster to the creature comforts that mob connections can bring. But though he idolizes Sonny, the boy loves and respects his decent, honest father. It takes a major tragedy for the 17-year-old boy (now played by Lillo Brancato) to decide his true course in life., Carefully-observed study of working-class life in the Bronx, New York, in the 1960s. A father feels powerless to do anything as his son comes increasingly under the influence of a neighbourhood gangster. The boy grows up with two heroes of very different character: one is loving and industrious, the other corrupt and immersed in the dangerous criminal underworld., Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster’s growing attraction for a beautiful black girl., An Italian American boy grows up in the Bronx in the 60s with admiration for both his father and the local gang boss who he sees as a second father and respects. But his father is an honest man who dislikes his sons new “friends”. The boy must choose witch path to take in life as he grows up to be a man., Calogero Anello is a streetwise nine-year old who lives in a small apartment under the strict guidance of his bus driver father Lorenzo. One day Calogero witnesses a murder committed by a local gangster boss, Sonny. After Calogero refuses to identify Sonny, the gangster takes the boy under his wing, gradually introducing him to a new way of life. Soon, Calogero finds himself torn between two fathers and two very different ways of life., The top dog in young Francis Capra’s Bronx neighborhood is flashy “wiseguy” Chazz Palminteri. Palminteri befriends Capra, introducing the impressionable youngster to mob life. But though Capra idolizes Palminteri, he respects his honest father. It takes a tragedy for the 17-year-old boy to decide upon his true course in life., In Robert De Niro’s directorial debut he stars as the bus driver father of a young boy dangerously attracted to a life of crime. He tries to steer his son Calogero (played by Francis Capra and, in teen years, by Lillo Brancato) away from local gangster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) but sometimes the lure of easy money is too much., Story of a boy who’s caught between his admiration for his hard-working father and his fascination with a smooth-talking hood.