Presented by Martin Scorsese, this small-scale drama about working-class New Yorkers trying to hold onto their piece of the city's past speaks to the same nostalgia Scorsese no doubt feels for the Little Italy of his youth, which has since been swallowed up by Chinatown at one end and tourist traps at the other. But on its own terms, writer-director Kevin Jordan's second feature — he debuted with the eccentrically titled drama SMILING FISH & GOAT ON FIRE (2000), about two diametrically different brothers — is slight, rambling stuff buoyed by fine performances. Christmas is approaching, and pigheaded patriarch Frank Giorgio Danny Aiello) has lost his house and is on t...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins