The Pope of Greenwich Village
starring: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan
directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792849506
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792849507
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 2454
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 1984
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Turn up the Sinatra, put on a leather jacket, and slip into a rollicking, high-voltage movie that produces tears of laughter (New York Daily News). Mickey Rourke (The Rainmaker), EricRoberts (National Security, Runaway Train) and Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Splash) create emotion-charged characters who tingle with energy and play with conviction (The Hollywood Reporter) in this modern-day classic that's as robust and powerful as Italianespresso! In New York's Little Italy, smooth-talking hustler Charlie (Rourke) works in a restaurant and dreams of one day buying his own with his girlfriend Diane (Hannah). His wiry wheeler-dealer cousin Paulie (Roberts) waits tables, skims money off checks and is always scheming to score big. Butthey're all about to pull a scam on the wrong guyBed Bug Eddie (Burt Young, Rocky), the Mafia king of Greenwich Village! Now these small-time con men are in big-time troubletrouble so big that even their mobster uncle might not be able to save them!
Amazon.com:
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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- Mickey Rourke has The Juice in The Pope of Greenwich Village.The French consider Mickey Rourke America's greatest actor. In the 80s, they loved him for his "cool, ... Read More
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- The Forgotten ClassicThis movie is a classic and well worth owning. I try to watch this movie at least once a year because ... Read More
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- Watched over 20 timesI've watched this over 20 times. Obviously, its one of my all time favorite movies. Warning: Not a chick ... Read More
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- MICKEY ROURKE AT HIS BEST!I've revisited many movies over the years and sometimes come away dissappointed that the film hasn't aged ... Read More
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- The Pope of Greenwich Village this is great I always loved this movie and now I have it on DVDThe Pope of Greenwich Village
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