Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/18/2006(USA
Release Date: 09/18/2007
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: City Lights Home Video
Director
Michael Corrente's
coming-of-age comedy drama Brooklyn Rules unfurls in 1985, coincident with the early rise of
John Gotti. Three young Brooklyn men of Italian-American heritage --
Michael Turner (
Freddie Prinze Jr.),
Carmine Mancuso (
Scott Caan), and
Bobby Canzoneri (
Jerry Ferrara) -- make the pivotal, potentially irreversible choices that will determine their directions in life. The boys' periodic run-ins with a sadistic mobster type who rules the neighborhood,
Caesar Manganaro (
Alec Baldwin), suggest the ever-present option of drifting into a career of crime. On the surface,
Michael courageously and doggedly bucks this choice, opting instead for the pre-law program at Columbia and a straight-laced romance with blonde-haired, blue-eyed coed
Ellen (
Mena Suvari), yet this path is not as antiseptic as it may seem, for he actually scammed his way into the law program. Meanwhile,
Carmine idolizes
Caesar, and his desire to emulate this thug not only compromises his own moral integrity, but threatens to jeopardize the stability of
Michael's life as well by drawing him into a sticky web of criminal activity. While the first two men navigate these treacherous paths, the third friend,
Bobby, stakes out safer ground with a low-key job at the post office and married life with his intended. Over the course of it all, the boys' bonds of friendship become stressed and strained given the divergence of their paths.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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