29th street ( film )
frank pesce loves happy endings. in fact, he loves them so much he altered the truth about himself in the new film
29th street .
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29th street got 75% good reviews based on 8 reviews, considered
fresh
, on rotten tomatoes .
aside from the unfortunate r - rated language, 29th street is an otherwise delightful family film in the classic frank capra tradition. not that 29th street is in the same league with it' s a wonderful life, the most beloved example of
capracorn ,
but it is reminiscent of the latter in
review: aside from the unfortunate r - rated language, 29th street is an otherwise delightful family film in the classic frank capra tradition. not that 29th street is in the same league with it' s a wonderful life, the most beloved example of
capracorn ,
but it is… (more )
aside from the unfortunate r - rated language, 29th street is an otherwise delightful family film in the classic frank capra tradition. not that 29th street is in the same league with it' s a wonderful life, the most beloved example of
capracorn ,
but it is reminiscent of the latter in that it relates one essentially decent man' s life story, in flashback... read more
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sometime referee between father and son. the love and devotion displayed during the family' s chief crisis and resolution is especially poignant, a grand demonstration of conjugal loyalty that makes this film a lovely paean to family life. one might describe 29th street as mean streets meets it' s a
first - time director george gallo (he scripted the robert de niro hit, midnight run) based his movie on the story of character actor frank pesce, jr. , who appears in 29th street as his own older brother, vito. pesce, jr. had a small role in midnight run and it was during the lensing of that film
it' s the only part of the movie that isn' t true ,
says pesce, who also appears in
29th street ,
as his own brother, vito. anthony lapaglia plays pesce in the movie .
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the pesces in this movie have their origins in real people (indeed, the real frank jr. is a character actor who appears as his own older brother, vito), but in “29th street” they seem to emerge mostly from the long tradition of italian - americans in the movies .
according to
29th street ,
which chronicles the rather charmed life of the new york - born italian - american, pesce won over $ 6 million 15 years ago in the first new york state lottery. the truth of the matter is, pesce didn' t win a dime .
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it was while he was doing bit parts on good pal tony danza' s sitcom
who' s the boss ?
that pesce came up with the idea for
29th street .
pesce says the movie wouldn' t have happened without his other good friend, the late james franciscus .
this film tells the story of frank pesce, the blue - collar worker who won $ 6, 000, 000 in new york' s first state lottery. rather than concentrate on pesce after his windfall, the film takes place on the night of the lottery drawing, with the protagonist reflecting on his past experiences .
insurance company and returned to him, good as new. the reason frank is so mad this particular christmas eve is that he' s just won $ 6 million in the first new york lottery. the mitigating circumstances surrounding his seeming good fortune are revealed during the course - - and finale - - of 29th street .
that he approached gallo with the idea of telling a touching father - son story based on his own charmed life. co - written by gallo, pesce, jr. and james franciscus, 29th street is a decent piece of work marred only by the aforementioned spate of four - letter words, which, while perhaps authentic ,
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endearing and entertaining fact - based comedy drama, starring anthony lapaglia as an italian - american whose unbelievable run of good luck proves a real irritation to both himself and his increasingly grouchy father (danny aiello). with lainie kazan and frank pesce, the real - life inspiration for the film .
still, anthony lapaglia struggles manfully with it, and makes it about as convincing as it can be. if you saw a little - noticed 1990 alan alda movie named “betsy’s wedding, ” you will remember lapaglia, who stole the show as a mafioso who fell hopelessly in love with ally sheedy, as a cop. again this time, he shows a genuine comic gift. the ending aside, “29th street” is a movie of considerable energy and good humor, with the expansive aiello, the uninhibited kazan and the screwy lapaglia having a lot of fun with the material .
i always have the sense that there’s more than meets the eye in those stories, and george gallo ’s “29th street” has the same conviction. this is more or less the true story of a man named frank pesce jr. , who was born with good luck and tormented by it all of his life, right up until the time the worst possible thing happened to him, which was that he won the 1976 new york state lottery. why would that be a terrible thing? i can’t say, without revealing too many of the movie’s surprises, but trust me. to paraphrase a famous line from “ raging bull, ” if he loses, he loses, and if he wins, he loses .
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side # 1 - - 1. and the winner is... (main titles) [ 5: 34 ] 2. a lucky curse [ 8: 31 ] 3. growing up in the city [ 5: 06 ] 4. dodging the draft [ 8: 41 ] 5. dangers of spanish harlem [ 9: 08 ] 6. 29th street [ 8: 55 ] 7. shooting dice [ 7: 49 ] 8. how to lose a car [ 4: 37 ] 9. bad luck in bud lake [ 4: 37 ] 10. at the races [ 5: 54 ] 11. making an offer [ 5: 58 ] 12. ten grand in debt [ 3: 02 ] 13. the trade [ 7: 07 ] 14. and that' s the story [ 4: 12 ] 15. we got the ticket! [ 7: 51 ] 16. end credits [ 4: 01 ]
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and i cannot believe it didn' t get more behind it as far as advertising prior to it' s release. when i auditioned for the part; we were told that the movie would most likely be an oscar nominee. it should have been; because it is excellent. truly excellent. it is a great story and looking at it now; it feels a lot like the sopranos. in fact tony sirico of the sopranos was in it. when we were filming in charlotte; i never knew how much of a real story was in this movie. if you' ve ever filmed a scene for a movie; you know how much tunnel vision you really have. i didn' t really understand it until i saw it almost a year later. my part was of a lottery
finalist
in the movie at
madison square garden
. properly played by the
historic
charlotte coliseum. now. . the independence arena. i was there for 25 hours straight and i can' t say i enjoyed it at the time. the local tv news interviewed me on air live (a major film in charlotte was a big deal then) and i looked like a 70' s reject with no sleep. i wasn' t far from being that in reality! although looking back; i am proud to say i was in this film. please see it if you have not and you will be better for it .
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offers some interesting new twists on the well - worn theme of father - son conflicts .
shoots for capraesque and falls well short... but still worth watching on cable one boring night .
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frank pesce is the luckiest man alive in spite of his bad luck. based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough new york neighborhood has a gift for finding himself in the worst possible... see full summary »
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the toy car that frank rides in was an 1980s model corvette, but the time - line was 1976 .
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one of my favorite things on television is the news coverage of lucky lottery winners. there they are, sitting in their living rooms, holding the winning ticket and expounding on their plans. they get a mike shoved in their faces and suddenly they’re benevolent investors and financiers, announcing good deeds such as buying their mother a home or paying off their in - law’s pickup truck .
the movie stars the feckless anthony lapaglia as frank jr. , and danny aiello as his father, whose luck is as bad as his son’s is good. the family lives together in a crowded row house, in riotous good will, held more or less in line by mrs. pesce (lainie kazan), who sings operatic arias in the kitchen while the men sit in the next room and look at her in sheer love and wonderment. frank sr. ’s great dream in life is to move his family to queens, and his great passion is for his lawn (he chases away cats because of a belief that their body heat can burn holes in the grass) .
they are loosely related to the characters in “ goodfellas, ” “ married to the mob, ” “ true love ” and “ spike of bensonhurst, ” and aiello, as the head of the family, has all the necessary warmth and passion to lead them .
the great cross of his life is his son’s good luck. even frank jr. ’s bad luck is good luck, as when he’s stabbed in a fight with a girl but then the surgeons discover a tumor in its earliest stages, and are able to remove it. if he hadn’t been stabbed, who knows what mischief that tumor might have caused? his good luck almost seems to exhibit a sense of humor, as when he keeps trying to lose his car, so he can report it stolen, but it keeps being found and returned to him .
then he enters the first new york state lottery. and of course he is among the finalists for the big prize. his problem is, by then he no longer possesses the ticket, because of some urgent dealings with mobsters who are on his father’s case. and so, when he wins ...
well, i have a slight problem with what happens then. the ex - planation at the end of the movie is so neat and tidy that i couldn’t really believe it, especially not after the movie showed me two different explanations for what happened. the ending is so unlikely, indeed, that i suspect it is the literal truth, and that such a thing did happen, exactly like that, to the real frank pesce jr. no screenwriter could have dreamed it up .
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comedia / un hombre gana 6, 2 millones de dólares en la lotería del estados de nueva york. pero, para sorpresa de todos, se siente mal y lanza bolas de nieve contra una iglesia, por lo que es detenido. más tarde, en la comisaría explica sus motivos. desde que nació, en la calle 29 de nueva york, siempre le ha acompañado la buena suerte, pero ésta amenaza la unión de su familia. reparto: danny aiello, anthony lapaglia, lainie kazan, frank pesce, robert foster, ron karabatsos, rick aiello, vic manni, paul lazar, pete antico .
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pesce was offered $ 10, 000 for his lottery ticket, but his father insisted he not sell it .
i held onto the ticket. i went to the drawing at madison square garden and i won beans ,
pesce says .
i said to my father,' are you happy now? i told you i should have sold the ticket.'
so pesce, a fan of frank capra movies, decided to write a happy ending to his story .
i hate those kind of endings where people sit there and say,' i know what' s going to happen. he' s going to lose the money.' do you think i would be making movies if i won all that money ?
pesce began acting as an extra in
the godfather ii
and was a stand - in for the likes of robert deniro in
taxi driver
and frank sinatra in
the first deadly sin .
he gave me $ 3, 000 out of his pocket and said,' when we sell the story you can give it (the money) back to me.' he put his money and his heart where his mouth was. he knew the story was a killer. we did sell it .
in fact, pesce sold it to three studios simultaneously .
the litigation departments are still trying to unravel the insanity that i did. there' s a movie yet to be made about what i went through to make this movie .
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on christmas eve, frankie pesce of queens wins $ 6 million in new york state' s first lottery. instead of joy, he' s in a rage, breaking church windows and disturbing the peace. at the police station, he tells his story. he' s extraordinarily lucky, beginning with surviving a dicey childbirth; he works a little here and there; he still lives with his parents, his sister, her husband, and his older brother. they have noisy relationships, and at the heart is his father: a guy with dreams but little to show for them. dad has lost his trucking business to a mafia wise guy, now he' s lost his job as a teamster. but is dad really a loser, and why, after winning $ 6 million, is frankie desolate ?
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in 1976, frank pesce jr. (lapaglia) is a lucky man. his father, frank sr. (aiello), is, however, very unlucky. one day, frank jr. buys a lottery ticket and finds that he has a good chance of winning. but frank sr. has some gambling debts to the mob and they are willing to take frank jr.' s ticket. frank must decide what to do with the ticket. the plot is supposedly based on the true story of the first person to win the new york lottery, but frank pesce jr. never won the lottery .
that it relates one essentially decent man' s life story, in flashback and over a period of several decades, with beginning and concluding sequences during yuletide .
it' s christmas eve, 1976, somewhere in the italian - american community of new york city. frank pesce, jr. (anthony lapaglia) is mad as hell and he' s not going to take it anymore. rewarded for smashing snowballs into the windows of his local catholic church by being marched by an irate priest down
to the police station, frank responds to the detectives' questions by telling them his life story... and of his curse of good fortune. from birth frank has been incredibly lucky. when his mother (lainie kazan) went into labor prematurely, she was rushed to a hospital different from the one she
had expected. that same night, the hospital mama had originally targeted for his birth burned down. later, frank was knifed by a girlfriend' s irate brother, but instead of a painful inconvenience, the wound ended up being a blessing in disguise: the incision made by the knife revealed a
soon - to - be - malignant tumor that the doctors caught in time to save frank' s life. frank avoided the vietnam war because his eccentricities were mistaken for lunacy by his local draft board. even the car frank tries ditching into the river to collect its insurance is found not once, but twice by the
nevertheless detract from the warmth and humanity otherwise evinced onscreen. the cast is wonderful, with danny aiello, as frank pesce, sr. , the primary scene stealer. the father - son relationship is beautifully executed and both aiello and lapaglia make the audience feel the love and hate they
feel toward each other. aiello plays a father who' s proud of his son despite his petty envy of his son' s good fortune, while he must struggle on, year after year, to make ends meet, always the loser. lainie kazan (my favorite year, beaches) delivers a searing portrayal of the wife, mother and
wonderful life, though it' s much closer in spirit and story to the latter than the former. (profanity. )
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29th street is a 1991 american comedy-drama film . it was written and directed by george gallo and was adapted from the story by frank pesce and james franciscus . 
29th street is a 1991 american comedy-drama film. it was written and directed by george gallo and was adapted from the story by frank pesce and james franciscus.
29th street is a 1991 american comedy-drama film. it was written and directed by george gallo and was adapted from the story by frank pesce and james franciscus.