The Pope of Greenwich Village

• Eric Roberts: Paulie
• Mickey Rourke: Charlie Moran
• Daryl Hannah: Diane
• Geraldine Page: Woman Knight
• Kenneth McMillan: Barney
• Tony Musante: Pete
• M. Emmet Walsh: Detective Burns
• Burt Young: Eddie Grant
• Jack Kehoe: Detective Walter Ritter
• Philip Bosco, Father of Paulie
• Val Avery: Nunzi
• Joe Grifasi: Jimmy
• Frank Vincent: Mafia Member

The Pope of Greenwich Village ( The Pope of Greenwich Village ) is an American film drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg, from the year 1984. The screenplay was written by Vincent Patrick on the basis of his own novel.

Action

The Italian -born cousin Paulie and Charlie Moran living in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York City. Both work in a restaurant. You will be fired for stealing. Moran is in debt, needs money for his girlfriend, an aerobics instructor, and he has an ex-wife pay alimony. Paulie wants to buy a racehorse. You make them an offer to participate in a robbery. Charlie really wants to be honest, after all, can then be persuaded yet. The cousins ​​opt for a robbery in which a safe with $ 150,000 cash to be robbed. A third man to help. Charlie's girlfriend tried in vain to dissuade him from the idea. A corrupt cop who lives with his mother wants to steal the same money. He suddenly appears during the robbery, but dies by his own clumsiness when he crashes into an empty slot.

It turns out that the stolen money Eddie, the Mafia godfather of the district of Greenwich Village belonged. The Godfather is one of the robbers from him he learns the names of the other two. Charlie and Paulie's uncle Pete, the member of the crew Eddie is trying to help the two. However, Paulie must be cut off as a punishment a thumb. Diana leaves Charlie and takes his share from the robbery with you. She leaves him a message on the answering machine and Charlie destroyed out of anger the private kitchen. Later Paulie is summoned to Eddie and Eddie tells him everything. Later, Charlie comes into possession of an incriminating audio tape that could bring for zwanzige years behind bars Eddie. Paulie, who now works as a waiter at Eddie, Eddie poisoned. Charlie and Paulie settle to Florida.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times, the film show mainly the behavior of the characters; the action was a pretext for " theatrical " ( " showboat " ) representations. In this respect the film for the actors involved was "a dream ". He acted at times as if he could have a deeper meaning, as the movie The Godfather have a; but he had not really get a message across. The portrayal of Eric Roberts was " civilized " ( " mannered ").

Awards

Geraldine Page was nominated in 1985 for Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

Background

The film was shot in Greenwich Village, in Hoboken (New Jersey) and in Oceanport in Monmouth County (New Jersey). He played in the cinemas of the United States an approximately 6.8 million U.S. dollars. Originally for the main roles Robert De Niro provided ( for the role of Charlie ) and Al Pacino ( for the role of Paulie ).