Film 1

• Kidulthood
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• Scarface 1983
• An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows
gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray
from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their
arrival in Miami. After killing a powerful Cuban figure,
Montana and company gain the ability to leave their
refugee camps and roam around the U.S. After
unsuccessfully trying to make it legitimately in the
country, Montana and Ray resort to selling cocaine to
dealers around the world. Tony’s rise is quick, but as he
becomes more powerful, his enemies and his own
paranoia begin to plague his empire.
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• Once upon a time in America 1984
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish
gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards,
the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong
partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in
the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to
the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where
an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the
past.
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Casino 1995
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las
Vegas–it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel
one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las
Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world.
Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of
mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970′s and ’80′s are revealed.
Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his
boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the
locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw–Ace falls in love with a
hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs
and violence.
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• Mean Streets 1973
• In a series of character-led incidents set against the
background of New York City’s Little Italy, we follow the
life of Charlie, a small-time member of the wiseguy
community who collects protection money. His friends
Tony and Michael are part of the community, but his
other friend Johnny Boy is unreliable and therefore must
be shunned. Charlie’s secret girlfriend Teresa has
epilepsy, and so must also be shunned. When Charlie’s
uncle Giovanni offers him a restaurant – the first step up
the ladder – Charlie is forced to choose between his
desire for power, his love for Teresa and his duty to
protect his friend Johnny Boy.