Brooklyn Rules

BROOKLYN RULES is an outstanding coming-of-age drama set on the mean streets of Brooklyn. In 1974, Michael Turner, Bobby Canzoneri , and Carmine Mancuso are three young friends who like to think of themselves as tough guys. After they find a dead body–and a gun–their lives are in for a change.

Eleven years later, Michael is working at a deli and studying at Columbia; Bobby is a ne’er-do-well who’s nervous about proposing to his girlfriend, Amy; and Carmine is starting to do small jobs for the local mob, run by Caesar Manganaro. At school, Michael falls for one of his classmates, Ellen , a society girl who sees through his preppie persona and is attracted to his tougher side. Michael wants nothing to do with the mob, but Carmine mistakenly gets him involved with Caesar, jeopardizing his career - and his life.

If Goodfellas had spent more time in the gangsters earlier years this is the film it would have been. The life’s of these three guys unfolds to tell a captivating story of growing up in an Italian neighbourhood and the paths people try to take.

Mobsters are cool, think of any mobster and you think, that guys cool, maybe not the one from The Sopranos who bats for the other team and is on the bigger side of big, but they are cool. This film only tips the iceberg showing how a lad gets involved with a life of organised crime and how it snowballs to affect everyone he cares for.

 

~Review by Alex

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