Biography: Burt Young |
Burly Burt Young is best remembered for playing Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law Paulie in Rocky (1976), a role that earned him an Oscar nomination. He would reprise the role in all of the Rocky sequels. Born Jerrry De Louise in New York City,
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Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008)
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: min
Standing six and a half feet tall and weighing 265 pounds, Primo Carnera was one of the most formidable opponents in the history of heavyweight boxing, and in 1933, after becoming heavyweight champion of his native Italy, we went on to defeat Jack...
Cast: Julie Christie James Caan John Hurt Christina Ricci Natalie Portman Eli Wallach Andy Garcia Chris Cooper
Tags: Slice of Life Ensemble Film Romantic Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 110min
Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to 2006's Paris, Je T'Aime. Broken into short segments, New York, I Love You is comprised of 10 films, most...
Cast: Sylvester Stallone Irwin Winkler
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 101min
Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar 30 years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife, Adrian, who...
Length: 93min
A woman making her way back to sanity finds herself living in a house with a history of madness in this hriller. Lei (Laura Morante) is a woman who has spent fifteen years in a mental hospital; eager to start her life over again, she's decided to put...
Cast: Diane Keaton
Tags: Farce Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 100min
When a gentle bookkeeper is forced to act as an assassin in order to pay off her husband's debt to the mob, the bloodless scheme she concocts to keep a clear conscience could cost her more than she bargained for in a blistering crime comedy starring...
Cast: Ben Gazzara Louise Fletcher
Length: 93min
A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving...
Cast: Talia Shire
Tags: Domestic Comedy Reunion Films Comedy Drama Family Drama
Length: 89min
New England native Vanessa Parise makes her directorial debut with the Italian-American wedding movie Kiss the Bride. Danni Sposato (Amanda Detmer) embarks on her wedding plans aided by her mother, Irena (Talia Shire), and grandmother Julia (Frances...
The Day The Ponies Come Back (2000)
Cast: Jerry Schatzberg Burt Young
Length: 101min
A young Frenchman's search for his American father provides the thematic center of this drama by septuagenarian director Jerry Schatzberg. Daniel (Guillaume Canet) repairs brass instruments for a living, and when he journeys to New York to work on...
Cast: Hugh Grant James Fox
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy of Errors Comedy Gangster Film
Length: 103min
Would you believe Hugh Grant as a violent Mafioso from Kansas City? Don't worry if you can't: that's part of the joke in this romantic comedy. Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant) is a British expatriate living in Manhattan who runs a successful auction...
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 90min
A lifelong cycle of abuse reaches a shocking climax for a woman who has suffered at the hands of men for far too long in this emotionally devastating tale from filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. Ever since she was a little girl, Lily (Laurel Holloman) has...
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