a5c7b9f00b "Little Italy" in New York: Charlie and his cousin Paulie aren't lucky job-wise. Charlie is cool, but Paulie's maroonic behavior constantly brings them in trouble. Then Paulie comes up with the idea to rob the safe of a small company. Together with a safe expert they go for it. However the $150,000 they get are hot: it belongs to the mob and was intended to corrupt the police. The mob only knows the name of the safe man, but they try very hard to find the rest of the gang, too… Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department. Mickey Rourke has one of his best rolesCharlie, a maitre'd at a New York restaurant where he works alongside his scatter-brained cousin Paulie (Eric Roberts). Charlie would like nothing more than to make enough cash to open his own business with girlfriend Daryl Hannah, but when Paulie gets caught screwing with a dinner check, both men are out of a job and have to find another means to an end. At Paulie's suggestion they take up with an old Irish safe cracker (Kenneth McMillan) to rob a building of $150,000; but things get more sticky when Charlie learns they've just swiped the stash of a local crime boss, Bed Bug Eddie (ROCKY's Burt Young). This film is pretty good, beginning with Rourke and Roberts' bonding performances. Roberts has some great lines and comes close to stealing the movie from Rourke whenever you can make out what he's saying through his odd speech patterns. Daryl Hannah, at her youngest here, is more or less only around for the eye candy. What holds the film together is the undying loyalty between Charlie and his bumbling cousin, for no matter how often Paulie continues to mess up his life, Charlie still sticks with him. Here is a movie that doesn't get talked about very often but is worth watching, though it's kind of excessive at two hours long. **1/2 out of **** Pretty entertaining, low-key crime flick. Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts play two going-nowhere punks in NYC. Roberts in particular worksa waiter in a club for gangsters and wishes he could be more like them. He overhears things, and picks up some information that he thinks could lead him and his cousin/best buddy Rourke to big money. Of course, everything goes wrong (you'd have to be nuts to try to commit a crime with nutjob Eric Roberts by your side). Rourke is a bit of an overactor, but looks extremely subtle next to Roberts. As bad an actorRoberts is, though, there's some crazy there that always makes me kind of like his performances. Geraldine Page has a small role and got nominated for an Oscar for it. This is an example of an aging star giving a serviceable character actor performance, and it's nothing special. My choice for best in show would actually be Daryl HannahRourke's girlfriend. She has a couple of really good scenes. Kenneth McMillan is also goodthe Irish safe cracker Rourke and Roberts hook up with, and Rocky's Burt Young is goodthe mob boss they're ripping off. M. Emmet Walsh also co-stars but doesn't get much to do. The Pope of Greenwich Village, set in Manhattan’s Italian community, is a near-miss in its transition from novel [by Vincent Patrick] to film, setting forth an offbeat slice-of-life tale of small-time guys involved in big trouble.
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