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Mystic River
Why this pick
Its lifelong Boston friendships are ruptured by childhood trauma, then pulled into a morally fraught crime investigation with the same heavy, mournful sense of consequence.
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MOVIE1996 2h 27m USA
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Why this pick
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Once Upon a Time in America
Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan in the mid-1960s. The local priest, Father Robert "Bobby" Carillo, serves as a father figure to the boys and keeps an eye on them. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, King Benny.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert De Niro
Father Bobby
Kevin Bacon
Sean Nokes
Jason Patric
Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra
Ron Eldard
John Reilly
Dustin Hoffman
Danny Snyder
Vittorio Gassman
King Benny
Joe Perrino
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra
Geoffrey Wigdor
Young John Reilly