A Bronx Tale

A Bronx Tale It's 1960 in New York City in the middle of the bronx. Living at East 187th Street is the family of Calogero (played at age 9 by Francis Capra and at age 17 by Lillo Brancato). Calogero's father Lorenzo believes that a man should make an honest living to support his family and refuses to be involved in anything that is illegal, such as working for Sonny, the local "boss". Lorenzo is played by Robert De Niro. However, Calogero idolizes Sonny, and when given the oppurtunity to help "the boss" beat a murder charge, Calogero helps him out. As grateful

as Sonny was he took the 9-year old under his wing and despite the protestations of Lorenzo, the two developed a bond. As a result of their relationship , Calogero now has two people each giving him different advice and neither respecting what the other has to say. Life's difficult choices, when tackled by conscience, lead to survival in a brutal world. Robert De Niro has appeared in some of the greatest gangster films of the past two decades. As the director of this film it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that De Niro has chosen this genre for his first behind the camera motion picture. A Bronx Tale covers little new ground, but the material's presentation is anything but ordinary. Sure, on the surface, it's another gangster movie, but the story has a lot more to it. A Bronx Tale gives it's viewers an overly aspiring perspective, but the film has a lot of emotional mean