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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 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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Pope of Greenwich Review,
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This review is from: The Pope of Greenwich Village (Widescreen) (DVD)
I was amazed as to how quickly my DVD arrived when I ordered it. I think it came the following day. Remarkable, seeing that usually it takes days. The DVD was excellent. I forgot how good this movie was. I had only seen it once and that was back when it first got released in 1984. Man I am feeling old!! Keep up the GOOD Work. You will get my business again.However on another note. I have been looking for this movie for years, Maxie starring Glenn Close and Mandy Patinkin. I can't believe you people are the only ones that sell it, but I am not going to pay $99.00 for it. Let's get real. You can pretty much get a box set of something for that. The movie was good but come on now, it isn't worth $100.00 plus plus!! Also the movie a Trip to Bountiful starring Geraldine Page and Rebecca Demorney something like $ 35.00 that is a bit much for this movie too but still far more reasonable than the other one. Is there anything you can do for me. I would really love to have these 2 movies in my collection. But the prices are ridiculous. I would appreciate your in put. Thank you and best regards, Edith Gaspar
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excellent, funny and great choice for casting,
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This review is from: The Pope of Greenwich Village (Widescreen) (DVD)
good movie, funny with great dialog, both eric roberts and mickey rourke were perfect for the parts they played. roberts should have been nominated on this one. great music as well.
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Relationships & Loyalty,
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This review is from: The Pope of Greenwich Village (Widescreen) (DVD)
The two main characters in this movie are involved in a heist which draws the attention of the mob and the police, but to me the movie was more about relationships and loyalty. While all of the actors were strong, I was blown away by the amazing performance of Eric Roberts, with whom I was previously unacquainted. Overall the script was quite good. I enjoyed watching the Pope of Greenwich Village and recommend same. This 1984 movie has an R rating but is pretty tame by today's standards.
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