The Pope of Greenwich Village

Starring:Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan, Tony Musante, M. Emmet Walsh, Burt Young, Jack Kehoe, Philip Bosco, Val Avery, Joe Grifasi, Tony DiBenedetto, Ronald Maccone, Betty Miller, Thomas A. Carlin, Leonard Termo, Marty Brill, John Bentley (II), Ed Setrakian
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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 cafÃ© 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).

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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).

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!

Customer Reviews:

the pope of greenwich village.......2007-05-28

fully enjoyed the movie. One of my favorites. also the service and delivery was very fast.Thank you

POPE.......2007-05-12

WATCHED THE VHS TAPE SO MANY TIMES IT FINALLY SNAPPED. WENT OUT AND BOUGHT THE DVD TO PLAY IT SAFE. FANTASTIC MOVIE. THE SONG SUMMER WIND IS USED AT THE PERFECT TIME. SOME SCENES REMINDED ME OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Classic 1980's NY.......2007-03-21

I first saw this movie in 1984 when I started my first job in NYC at the tender age of 22. And yes, I saw it right off of Little Italy!

I cringe when I hear people refer to this as a mob movie. IT IS NOT A MOB MOVIE. There are mob elements in it to set the story up but its not a mob story. It just follows two schmucks who are always trying to make it and never seem to. They try various schemes and such and never hit it big. And the stories along the way are poignant, funny, sad, and exciting all rolled into one. Growiing up in NY, we all knew a Charlie or a Paulie. They lived for the moment not for the future. Their clothes were more important than life, their image ruled their world and their world rarely went beyond a mile in either direction. A classic film that it to be owned and not rented. The soundtrack is fantastic!

Dirt and Crime Infested.......2006-06-13

Last of the James Dean style actors, Mickey Rourke has a star turn as the likable, well-dressed, New York City hipster. Cool Hand Luke director, Stewart Rosenberg moves Cool Hand's story north, but this one is more for laughs than drama. Despite the fact that there are a dead detective and a missing appendage in the script, there's very little blood or violence. Mostly we watch Rourke mug for the camera.

I wonder if the thin, tall Ms. Hannah is doing any work lately. She sure can't act, but she does have a good boxing jab. She leaves the story with Rourke's stolen money. Then Rourke punches out his apartment. Then he smacks around his cousin, the good-for-nothing, Paulie. The loser always gets Rourke fired or in trouble with the local crime boss. Rourke's character prefers the wacky cousin to his model girlfriend. That never added up. Being cool, stealing, and winning a horse race are more important than sack time for eternity with the blonde. Nahhhh!

Geraldine Page won an Oscar, which was well deserved as the tough talking, cigarette smoking, mom of a crooked cop. New York City, circa the early 80's, before Mayor Giuliani, it's dirty and crime infested. Rourke sort of likes it that way.

The Pope of Greenwich Village.......2006-03-17

This movie is a classic. If you have not seen it, you are missing out.

The Pope of Greenwich Village [Region 2]

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The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village [Region 2]
Starring: Eric Roberts , Mickey Rourke , Daryl Hannah , Geraldine Page , and Kenneth McMillan
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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