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Borough of Kings

A young man must decide between a life on the streets and a career in the theater.
Dec 31, 2000 · 1h 35m
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Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?

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CAST

Kerry Butler
Anna Callahan
Philip Bosco
Uncle Chicky
Joseph Lyle Taylor
Nunzio
Erik Jensen
Frankie the Snake
Olympia Dukakis
Helen Manners
Jim Stanek
Jimmy O'Conner
Patrick Newall
Tommy DeVito
Michael Mastro
Moosehead
Directed by Elyse Lewin

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Original language
EN
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Country
US
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