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Borough of Kings (2000)

Name: Borough of Kings
Director: Elyse Lewin
Released: 2000-12-31
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Kerry Butler, Philip Bosco, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Erik Jensen, Olympia Dukakis

A young man must decide between a life on the streets and a career in the theater.

IMDb 8.01h 35m

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Plot Summary

Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?