Growing Down in Brooklyn

Name: Growing Down in Brooklyn
Genre: Drama
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 6
Cast: Amy Hargreaves, Anthony Caso, Richard Cocchiaro

2000
2h

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6.0/10

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It's 1976. The Vietnam War is an unpleasant memory and disco fever is at its peak. In this semi-autobiographical film, four twenty-something friends from Midwood, Brooklyn are forced to conf... Read allIt's 1976. The Vietnam War is an unpleasant memory and disco fever is at its peak. In this semi-autobiographical film, four twenty-something friends from Midwood, Brooklyn are forced to confront their lives and all they hold dear when a friend is brutally murdered by the Mafia. T... Read allIt's 1976. The Vietnam War is an unpleasant memory and disco fever is at its peak. In this semi-autobiographical film, four twenty-something friends from Midwood, Brooklyn are forced to confront their lives and all they hold dear when a friend is brutally murdered by the Mafia. Their fall from innocence into tragic criminality breaks through the hardened cliché of the... Read all

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Eric Pastore-Blackwood's theme song "Growing Down In Brooklyn" & "Someone Took My Heart Away" from the film were re-recorded by his band Edison's Children starring Pete Trewavas (Marillion) & Astronaut Neil Armstrong's son Rick Armstrong on the Edison's Children's 3rd album "Somewhere Between Here and There". Edison's Children performed "Growing Down In Brooklyn" live at the NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration of Rick's dad (Apollo 11) landing on the moon with The Alan Parson's Project.

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Slice - Of - Brooklyn

While somewhat amateurish and predictable (especially the abrupt ending), this obscure indie shines as a little slice of 1970's Brooklyn. The plot involves four teenage friends who run afoul of some local mobsters, but the main thing is the atmosphere. Filmed on the streets of Midwood and actually inside some of those old houses, "Growing Down In Brooklyn" is grittier and more realistic than some of the films about Italian-American youth from Brooklyn that were actually made in the 1970's. Few could live up to the Tony Manero stereotype perpetuated to the world courtesy of "Saturday Night Fever", for example, but here in Brooklyn, everybody knew some neighborhood kids just like these. Even some local characters and longtime residents have cameos in the film, adding to the "time machine" feel. If you were growing up in Midwood during the 1970's, it would all be instantly recognizable. Just for that, the film is worth watching.