Word: capra
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...film centers on Calogero (Francis Capra), a 9-year-old boy from the neighborhood who is fascinated by the mysterious goings-on at the Chez Bippy, the bar and social club downstairs from his apartment. The reigning neighborhood mobster, Sonny, runs the place and coordinates all of his illegal dealings there. Calogero and his friends often stand on the stoop next door and mimic Sonny's every move...
...Bronx Tale" is worth a viewing just to seethe talented young Francis Capra and ChazzPalminteri in the much more solid first half ofthe film. And Joe Pesci's cameo signals that DeNiro has assembled all the requisite ingredientsfor a success. But his admirable attempt fails toenter the company of greats
...inmates and security guards tell it, Whitley sounds like the hero of a Frank Capra movie. He is open-minded, impartial, considerate. In a closed society where everyone constantly scrutinizes everyone else, he merits the highest compliment: he is straight up. "With Whitley, what you see is what you get," says veteran inmate Wilbert Rideau, who edits the prison's hard- hitting magazine, the Angolite. "He's the best warden we've ever had." Whitley earns praise even from those who know he may preside over their execution. "The warden's pretty cool people," says Curtis Kyles...
EDDIE MURPHY IS AN UNLIKELY FRONT man for a bald satire of political action committees. But THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN has the star updating Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with heaps of '90s cynicism and '60s righteousness. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Murphy) is no saintly Jefferson Smith from the Frank Capra classic; he is a shakedown artist improbably elected to Congress who is tempted, then troubled, by corrupting PACS and perks. A pity that director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) lacks the daredevil touch for a blend of 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live. Murphy still has his supernova smile...
Takano's is a story that Frank Capra might have directed. Like Mr. Smith, Takano is a young man who has spent his entire professional life surrounded by children--as a teacher of social studies and English at Rialto Junior High School in Riverside County, California...