Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Acting
Alec Baldwin devouring scenery as unhinged Caesar.
Direction
Corrente's authentic Brooklyn texture, not Scorsese karaoke.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like guys who grew up together.
Director
Michael Corrente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Freddie Prinze Jr. took the role specifically to break his teen heartthrob image; he and Scott Caan became real-life friends and later starred in a sitcom pilot together.
Shot on location in Brooklyn with many local non-actors, capturing a working-class Italian-American community that gentrification has since erased.
US
