A Bronx Tale | | Cast : | Chazz Palminteri | | Director : | | | Studio : | Hbo Home Video | | Format : | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Live, Widescreen, NTSC | | Released Date : | September 29, 1993 | | DVD Released Date : | May 27, 1998 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | November 30, 2005 | | Summary | Broxn Bash. | Content
 | This film is a great Mafia related movie that belongs in any Cosa Nostra collection. Even with the boring love story hidden in the script, the overall acting by De Niro and Chazz P. is awesome. Gives a real great feel for life in the Bronx during the late 50's early 60's, and also has an astounding soundtrack. The movie is violent but in a good way, without any blood and guts. A great organized crime feel. The only disappointment is that you never find out what Mafia family Chazz P.'s character, Sonny, belonged to. Plus you get a cameo of Joe Pesci. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 15, 2005 | | Summary | Solid | Content
| With Bob De Niro and Chazz Palminteri staring in a mob movie, you know it has to be good. Written by Palminteri, "A Bronx Tale" is the story of a boy going up in the Bronx of all places who toys with falling for the "glamore" of mob life or staying straight and living a clean and good life like his father. With Machiavelli Philosophy and "The Test" this movie is sure to entertain. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 11, 2005 | | Summary | Chazz is the genius behind the film | Content
| A couple years ago Chazz Palminteri came to my school to talk about this movie, his life, and hollywood in general. He basically does a one-man play version of this movie by himself, and that is what caught De Niro's eye. Many people could easily get confused that because De Niro has his name all over the film, that it is his work of art. It is actually about Chazz's life as a kid and has nothing to do with DeNiro. I would easily recommend this movie to anyone because it deals with so much in a few short hours.
Note: During the speech that Chazz gave, he claimed that indeed, he believed that if the girl did not reach over and open the car door for the guy than she wasn't a good catch. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 13, 2005 | | Summary | NOBODY CARES-YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT DAT ONE... | Content
| Robert De Niro stars in, and directed this incredible movie! If you like mob movies, you have to see this one. The acting is absolutely top-notch, from everyone in this film, and the story is unforgettable! This is an absolute must-see movie! I hope they come out with a special edition DVD soon, this movie deserves the best picture and sound quality possible! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 14, 2005 | | Summary | It takes death to learn how to live | Content
| Robert de Niro dared to mix several layers of universal myth and he served it on the rocks. Romeo and Juliet with an Italian, what's more white, who falls in love with a black girl who lives not nextdoor but rather next-neighborhood, with an unspecified and unsignaled no-trespassing line between the two neighborhoods. West Side Story with a bar in its center and bands of young rogues, whites on one side and blacks on the other side. The Godfather too is not very far, even if it is on a smaller scale. A Sicilian protects his neighborhood against dangerous outsiders and looks after daily problems to keep the police out of them. He is going to be the unofficial godfather of a young boy who does not tell the police what he knows about a murder that happened just under his nose. And there we have the famous situation for a boy to be divided between his real father and his godfather. Divided allegiances. The voice of your blood versus the voice of your mind or your soul. What happens when the son gets entangled in some silly situation and gets redressed by both his real father and his godfather, especially when his real father wants to confront the godfather for the hard redressing he just gave his son, and this godfather refuses the confrontation, and he is on his way to salvage the son, like some piece of expensive property, from a doomed adventure that has absolutely no common sense in it. Hard when the real father is rather against a black girl friend and the godfather is rather for it if it is love and nothing but love, and he gives him some advice how to check if it is a real love affair. But nothing is eternal and the past always catches up with a vengeance. How can you speak the truth when it is too late and you never had the courage to speak it before the lethal accident ? It's hard to speak to a corpse but if he is your godfather, speaking to him will necessarily bring something good, because this godfather is very close to God at this very moment, bargaining some favor for his godson in exchange of some years in Purgatory or even in Hell. Only godfathers know we can bargain with God. This vision of society cannot work if you do not have in your mind the concept of a protector of some type, the protector of the neighborhood, the protector of the child, the protector of life, the protector against any kind of danger coming from outside (be sure Hell's Angels are not exactly welcome on this block), etc. Some will say this is feudal or medieval, but it sure is comfortable and reassuring to know their is a strong tree against which you can lean.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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