A Bronx Tale

Year: 1993 Rating: R Overall Evaluation: 7.0 Significance Suppositions Story Style 8.0 / 10 6.0 / 10 7.0 / 10 7.0 / 10 Click HERE for evaluation criteria.

Style

Rated R for violence and language. There is a lot of cussing but it is your basic stupid street kind. Racist lingo abounds as well.

Story

The story revolves around the disintegration of a father and son as the son grows up in the Bronx right next door to a bunch of mob-types. He idolizes their leader and after helping him out with a murder rap the leader sort of adopts him, much to the chagrin of his father. The son falls in love with a black girl (a HUGE no-no for his Italian friends and family, especially in that time period) and has to deal with that as well.

Suppositions

I do not know a whole lot about the Bronx in the 50's but it seems pretty believable. The reactions to the cross-ethnic relationship, as well as the relationship itself, are not explained very well though. The main theme is that family (of whatever kind) is important and deserves loyalty.

Significance

This is a positive movie regarding family and loyalty. One by one the son realizes that his real friend and mentor has been his father all along, even though he rebels against throughout the movie. The honest working man is upheld as having attained the good life even up against the alleged good life of the gangster.