A Bronx Tale, The Original One Man Show with Chazz Palminteri (2025)
- Sun, Feb 16
Director: Chazz Palminteri Run Time: 95 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Chazz Palminteri
Country: United States
Language: English
A New Film of the Original One Man Show.
World Premiere – Tribeca Film Festival. In 1988, Bronx native Chazz Palminteri wrote the one-man autobiographical stage play A Bronx Tale,in which he plays all 18 characters. The powerful stage play depicted his bruising childhood, which included witnessing a gangland killing when he was nine years old.
Palminteri received multiple offers from major Hollywood studios to turn the play into a film. None of these offers respected his wishes to write the screenplay and star in the role of Sonny, until Robert DeNiro saw the show and gave Palminteri the opportunity he had been waiting for.
About the filmmaker:
Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri was a natural choice to continue the Italianate torch in film. In the tradition set forth in the 1970s by such icons as director Martin Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, John Cazale and Joe Pesci, Palminteri has brought grit, muscle and an evocative realism to the sidewalks of his New York neighborhood, violent as they are and were.
Chazz was born Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri in 1952 in the Bronx, New York, the son of Rose, a homemaker, and Lorenzo Palminteri, a bus driver. He grew up in a tough area of the Bronx, giving him the life lessons that would later prove very useful to his career. He graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and started out pursuing his craft in 1973 studying at the Actor’s Studio. He appeared off-Broadway in the early 1980s while paying his dues as a bouncer and doorman in nightclubs, among other jobs.
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