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Eric Roberts as Paulie and Mickey Rourke as Charlie star in this 121 minute film released in 1984 when Mickey was still good looking and nobody had heard of Eric's sister Julia yet.They play cousins living a complicated life in Manhattan on the verge of being hoods but still with a moral code.It's hard to understand what they are going through unless your from NYC.Thats why I took 1/2 star off.That being said its still a fun flick and quite like nothing else I've seen.
Paulie gets them both fired from a restaurant they were working at because he was padding his waiters bills.Now Charlie is divorced with a son from a woman who hates him and is now living with a upscale girl named Diane played by Daryl Hannah and is struggling to keep her impressed. This leeds him to agree to a small time heist with Paulie and his ex con contact Barney played by Kenneth McMillan.Well the small time heist is actually a"bank"of a mob boss named Bed Bug Eddie played by Burt Young and to make it worse they accidentally cause the death of a corrupt cop who had a tape of his dealings with the mob.The story goes on to race fixing and betrayal and theft by Diane of Charlie's share of the heist money.Paulie has his thumb cut of as retribution and turns in both Charlie and Barney.Charlie allows Barney to flee by sending him his money and then along with Paulie goes to the race track to bet Paulies money on a fixed race.Thanks to Charlie they win money even tho the horse only came in second.Then its time for Charlie to clean up the mess Paulie caused with Bed Bug.If you like gritty but believable drama about life on the underbelly of NY you'll love this.There are too many funny small little scenes, like grown men in suits playing stick ball in a school yard to a boom box playing "Summer wind"by Sinatra that just work unbelievable well.Or the wise ass parking meter violation cop in the Bronx getting a laxative from Paulie that makes him crap in front of other cops and firemen and EMS workers. It goes on and on.The Trailer URL is below the pix as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRMXwmD84Y
Paulie gets them both fired from a restaurant they were working at because he was padding his waiters bills.Now Charlie is divorced with a son from a woman who hates him and is now living with a upscale girl named Diane played by Daryl Hannah and is struggling to keep her impressed. This leeds him to agree to a small time heist with Paulie and his ex con contact Barney played by Kenneth McMillan.Well the small time heist is actually a"bank"of a mob boss named Bed Bug Eddie played by Burt Young and to make it worse they accidentally cause the death of a corrupt cop who had a tape of his dealings with the mob.The story goes on to race fixing and betrayal and theft by Diane of Charlie's share of the heist money.Paulie has his thumb cut of as retribution and turns in both Charlie and Barney.Charlie allows Barney to flee by sending him his money and then along with Paulie goes to the race track to bet Paulies money on a fixed race.Thanks to Charlie they win money even tho the horse only came in second.Then its time for Charlie to clean up the mess Paulie caused with Bed Bug.If you like gritty but believable drama about life on the underbelly of NY you'll love this.There are too many funny small little scenes, like grown men in suits playing stick ball in a school yard to a boom box playing "Summer wind"by Sinatra that just work unbelievable well.Or the wise ass parking meter violation cop in the Bronx getting a laxative from Paulie that makes him crap in front of other cops and firemen and EMS workers. It goes on and on.The Trailer URL is below the pix as usual.
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