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Winners And Losers on 29th Street
When would holding the winning ticket, worth 6.2 million dollars in the first New York lottery, be a bad thing? If you want to find out the answer, you'll have to see the 1991 family comedy/drama, 29th Street. The film is replete with Capraesque themes like family clashes and moral dilemmas, mixed... Read full review »
My favorite movie of all time
29th Street will bring laughter, sadness, and happiness to your emotions. This is a true American classic worth renting and then buying. The movie has a family quality to it, but without the boring mushy stuff that those movies have. The storyline is about a man who wins the lottery but has an... Read full review »
Frank Capra Meets Damon Runyon
There's been a lot of grumbling of late over the mislabeling of films in an attempt to lure unsuspecting audiences into the theater or to trick them into taking home a DVD they normally wouldn't consider seriously. I fell victim to it myself with THE PRESTIGE, which sold itself as one thing but... Read full review »
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Anthony LaPaglia of WITHOUT A TRACE stars as Frank Pesce, the $6.2 million winner of the first New York State Lottery. Unfortunately, Frank is also a full-time dreamer cursed with a lifetime of great luck, a bickering Italian-American family, and a love-hate relationship with his loser gambler father, Frank Sr. (Oscar® nominee Danny Aiello of DO THE RIGHT THING and MOONSTRUCK). But when Frank Jr. makes a deal with local mobsters, will his lottery prize be his unluckiest break ever? Fuhgeddaboutit! The biggest jackpot of all may be waiting for Frank and his father among the good guys, bad guys and wiseguys of 29th STREET. Lainie Kazan (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING), Oscar® nominee Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN), Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts of THE SOPRANOS) and Frank Pesce himself co-star in this acclaimed comedy written and directed by George Gallo, the screenwriter of MIDNIGHT RUN.
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29th Street
Anthony LaPaglia of WITHOUT A TRACE stars as Frank Pesce, the $6.2 million winner of the first New York State Lottery. Unfortunately, Frank is also a full-time dreamer cursed with a lifetime of great luck, a bickering Italian-American family, and a love-hate relationship with his loser gambler father, Frank Sr. (Oscar® nominee Danny Aiello of DO THE RIGHT THING and MOONSTRUCK). But when Frank Jr. makes a deal with local mobsters, will his lottery prize be his unluckiest break ever? Fuhgeddaboutit! The biggest jackpot of all may be waiting for Frank and his father among the good guys, bad guys and wiseguys of 29th STREET. Lainie Kazan (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING), Oscar® nominee Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN), Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts of THE SOPRANOS) and Frank Pesce himself co-star in this acclaimed comedy written and directed by George Gallo, the screenwriter of MIDNIGHT RUN.
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| Stars | Danny Aiello | |
| Actors | Anthony LaPaglia | |
| Available Formats | DVD | |
| Directors | George Gallo | |
| UPC | 013131295795 | |
| Genre | Comedies | |
| Subgenre | Self-Discovery • Organized Crime • Family Interaction • Crime | |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 1991 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 41min | |
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| (11/01/1991, p.4D, Mike Clark): "...For once in a recent movie, climactic sentimentality is earned..." | ||
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