Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 04/25/2000
SubTitles: English/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 84 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
This low-budget independent film by novice directors
Stephen F. Verona and
Martin Davidson is a slice-of-life elegy from the leather-jacket, bobby-soxer era of 1957, set in a Brooklyn high school. The film stands out for the appearance of up-and-coming actors (circa 1974)
Sylvester Stallone,
Henry Winkler, and
Perry King (even
Armand Assante has a bit role).
Stallone,
Winkler,
King, and
Paul Mace are members of a local neighbor social club called "The Lords of Flatbush," and they spend their time exercising their hormones, hot-wiring a car, playing pool, and quaffing egg creams at the local candy store. The film finally focuses its interest on two of the "lords."
Chico (
Perry King), owns a motorcycle and wheels over to see
Jane Bradshaw (
Susan Blakely), the daughter of an army colonel who, despite
Chico's motorcycle, gives him the brush-off. Then there is the muscle-headed
Stanley Rosiello (
Sylvester Stallone), who, like
Marlon Brando in
On the Waterfront, loves pigeons. He also loves
Frannie (
Maria Smith), with whom he has bedded down under the boardwalk one too many times, and now finds that she is pregnant and wants to get married. Skirting along the edges of the frame are
Butchey Weinstein (
Henry Winkler) and
Wimpy Murgalo (
Paul Mace), who, as second bananas, go along with
Chico and
Stanley as they adjust their testosterone to adult living.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
;)
