A Bronx Tale

Robert de Niro's directing debut is an acclaimed coming-of-age story set in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx in the early 1960s, where Calogero Anello (Lillo Brancato, Jr.), the son of a bus driver, is torn between his devotion to his honest, hard-working father (De Niro) and the gangster (Chazz Palminteri) he idolizes. Francis Capra, Joe Pesci, Kathrine Narducci, also star in this forceful adaptation of Palminteri's Broadway play. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.