Fingers

Name: Fingers
Genre: Drama, Crime, Music
Released: March 2, 1978
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 59

1978

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Brut Productions | Release Date: March 2, 1978 | R

Summary: A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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David Thomson

Fingers is still the best thing writer-director James Toback has ever done, and one of the most startling debuts in American film. Read full review

Mike Clark

The movie is raw and over the top, yet it has an emotional force that more refined works only wish they had. [15 Nov 2002]

Mick LaSalle

It's the film that introduced the world to the harsh yet playful sensibility of its director, James Toback, and to the capacity and willingness of Harvey Keitel to embody the darkest of psychological and spiritual conditions. Read full review

Scott Tobias

A gangster psychodrama that doesn't play by genre rules, Fingers is a study in bold contrasts, mingling the sublime and the vulgar, classical music and '50s rock, brute masculinity and sexual confusion. Read full review

Geoff Andrew

It's not exactly pleasant, but it is compelling. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Obviously, a split this elementary and theoretical needs all the concrete dramatic evidence it can get to stay alive. Toback's scenario lacks that evidence, as well as a dramatic structure. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Mr. Toback favors a stiff, staccato, nervous style of direction that's heavy on the hocus-pocus and low on verisimilitude or insight. Aiming for a mood of nightmarish abstraction, he borders all too often on jumpy incompetence. Read full review

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