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Director: Robert Mulligan
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A ludicrously overblown soap opera set in Italian Brooklyn which races from childhood anorexia to adolescent sexual trauma via wife-battering. Gere, as the pretty school-leaver who wants to be a social worker but comes up against his father's hard-hat ambitions, is fine, but his sensitive performance is simply mangled by the movie's muddled glorification of the macho ethos. Mulligan recut the film to 98 minutes forAuthor: TV
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Stephen J Friedman
Cast: Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Gere, Lelia Goldoni, Yvonne Wilder, Kenneth McMillan full cast
Duration: 116 mins
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