Brooklyn Rules

Name: Brooklyn Rules
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: May 18, 2007
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 53

2007

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City Lights Pictures | Release Date: May 18, 2007 | R

Summary: The tale of three life long friends struggling with relationships, responsibility and loyalty on the mean streets of 1980's-era Brooklyn. (City Light Pictures)

Director: Michael Corrente

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Jack Mathews

Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules takes him to the mean streets of Gotti country, circa 1985, and it's another gem. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

An entertaining film that's true to its world. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Baldwin dominates the screen with his slick, beefy swagger, and if Prinze is less than convincing as a kid from Brooklyn, Caan and Ferrara nail Carmine and Bobby with such assured economy that it hardly matters they're one-note roles. Read full review

Stephen Farber

The writing in Brooklyn seems even more generic. An excessive use of voice-over narration is a sure sign of a failure of dramatization. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Not as bad as Bobby's mother's lasagna, neither is Brooklyn Rules anywhere near the best you've ever had, though at times, it may remind you of it. Read full review

Stephen Holden

However authentic and heartfelt this film's depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn't begin to match "The Sopranos'" epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture. Read full review

Scott Foundas

As a longtime writer on "The Sopranos," Terence Winter has steered clear of most of the hoary organized-crime clichés. Instead, he's poured them all into director Michael Corrente's anemic urban drama. Read full review

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TomJ.

May 21, 2007

Excellent, gritty film about 3 child friends torn apart by life issues, maturity, and moral concioussness. producer corrente does an excellent job getting the best out of young actors on their way up.

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