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The Pope of Greenwich Village

Eric Roberts (Actor), Mickey Rourke (Actor), Stuart Rosenberg (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Letterboxed, Color
Contributor Jack Kehoe, Mickey Rourke, Kenneth McMillan, Philip Bosco, Tony Musante, Burt Young, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Vincent Patrick, Geraldine Page, Val Avery, M. Emmet Walsh, Stuart Rosenberg, Joe Grifasi See more
Language English, French
Runtime 2 hours and 1 minute
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Turn up the Sinatra, put on a leather jacket, and slip into a rollicking, high-voltage movie that produces tears of laughter (New York Daily News). Mickey Rourke (The Rainmaker), EricRoberts (National Security, Runaway Train) and Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Splash) create emotion-charged characters who tingle with energy and play with conviction (The Hollywood Reporter) in this modern-day classic that's as robust and powerful as Italianespresso! In New York's Little Italy, smooth-talking hustler Charlie (Rourke) works in a restaurant and dreams of one day buying his own with his girlfriend Diane (Hannah). His wiry wheeler-dealer cousin Paulie (Roberts) waits tables, skims money off checks and is always scheming to score big. Butthey're all about to pull a scam on the wrong guyBed Bug Eddie (Burt Young, Rocky), the Mafia king of Greenwich Village! Now these small-time con men are in big-time troubletrouble so big that even their mobster uncle might not be able to save them!

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Picture if you will two cousins, Charlie (Mickey Rourke) and Paulie (Eric Roberts), prowling the mean streets of New York's Little Italy. Charlie is reasonably put-together, a maitre d' at a chic café who aspires to running his own restaurant someday. Paulie is an incurable flake who can't resist a temptation or a goofball scheme, couldn't tell the truth to save his soul, and keeps splashing Charlie with the street slop of his slewing trajectory through life. This includes drawing him into the circles of Mob crime, most especially Paulie's boss, that supreme sleazebag "Bedbug Eddie" (Burt Young).

Michael Cimino is said to have had a hand in this movie, though the credited director is Stuart Rosenberg--an impersonal craftsman often hired in midshoot after the star and a more volatile director had parted company. This helps account for the picture's overall lack of rhythm and its wavering between overemphatic, Ethnic-with-a-capital-E idiosyncrasy, and low-key befuddlement. Still, it has its charms, most of them deriving from a terrific cast. At the time it came out, in the summer of 1984, Rourke and Roberts were both exciting, unpredictable talents; Roberts in particular had an amazing talent for being somebody brand new--psychologically, even physically--in every film he made. But even though they're hitting on all cylinders, the boys are quietly upstaged by some redoubtable old pros: the great Kenneth McMillan, the ineffable M. Emmet Walsh, and--scoring her umpteenth Oscar® nomination as the mother of an ill-fated cop--Miss Geraldine Page. --Richard T. Jameson

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches; 4 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Stuart Rosenberg
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Letterboxed, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 8, 2001
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000059TFP
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Vincent Patrick
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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J. T. Coughlin
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic. The movie that you wanted to see.
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015
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A classic movie. Set in New York in the late 1970's-early 1980's, it opens with our hearing Sinatra sing, 'A Summer Wind', which sets the mood and tone perfectly. Two second-cousins, Charlie (Mickey Rourke) and Paulie (Eric Roberts) are two street-wise guys trying to make a buck any way possible. They are walking tall, looking cool, keeping face and are aimless and drifting. They find out that 'situations' that they stumble upon and decisions that they make can be life altering ... for a whole lot of people.
The Producers put together a production that appears to tick like a clock. The Director, Stuart Rosenberg, makes it look effortless. The casting of ALL the actors, while 'cashing-in' on stereotypes, could not be improved upon and they all, every single one, deliver spectacular performances. Each of them perfectly compliments each and every other performer, to the point that I was completely sucked in. They should all be proud.
Eric Roberts turns in a performance that is such that I could not imagine another actor in his role and he truly makes you believe that he is a guy that took about 20 too many shots to the head. Mickey Rourke is outstanding from the first scene to the last and plays a character that's 5 to 10 years older that the guy in "Diner". Daryl Hannah, using her considerable talent, makes you believe that she IS that woman. Kenneth McMillan's character's life is one of poor choices and bad breaks and McMillan convinces you that he is, in fact, the neighborhood watch/clock repairman with a past that he's not proud of. Burt Young is seemingly a New York cousin of 'Paulie' from "Rocky" that fell in with exactly the people that he wanted to fall in with and plays a vicious character perfectly.
Geraldine Page was nominated for an Academy Award for her role. I don't know who received that Academy Award but it should have been Geraldine Page. She turned in a performance for the ages.
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Thomas w haller
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite movies
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2023
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One of my favorite movies, the Pope of Greenwich village Paully why do you need that suit? You don’t have a job to wear it to anymore ! What did you say say it again?
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Kandy Langford
5.0 out of 5 stars Paulie - the pivotal character
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2013
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1st - Mickey is pretty much the main character in any film. That's a given. As Charlie a try-to-be w/expensive clothes & charming demeanor - success. His laying out clothes on-his-bed - predecessor of Richard Gere in "American Gigolo". Never had an inkling Why Daryl is in this movie - incredibly miscast. Geraldine Page owns any role she takes on. Burt Young - deliciously evil.

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This movie belongs to Eric Roberts. His "Paulie" IS the movie. Child-like to a fault w/grandiose dreams that get him into a tremendous amount of trouble. He's loyal to his cousin & Charlie puts up w/him. Always touched by how much they love each other & what lengths they'll go to. Paulie - for all his FUs protects Charlie when it really matters. His ideas of revenge are like ice cream on a hot day. Paulie has to have the best of everything whether he can afford it or not. Absolutely resilient & turns a negative into a positive w/out missing a step.

Movie ends w/stick ball in the NYC street & Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind"...
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cookieman108
4.0 out of 5 stars "Italians don't outgrow people. They outgrow clothes,"
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2004
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After watching The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), I checked on here and was surprised to see relatively few reviews. Maybe people aren't all that aware of the movie, or maybe they're put off by the fact that one of its' stars is Mickey Rourke (or The Human Ashtray, as actress Kim Basinger once referred to him as), an actor who showed a lot of promise early in his career (some called him the next Brando) but eventually fell from grace due to his poor choice of film roles, grandiose ego, erratic behavior, and slovenly demeanor.

The Pope of Greenwich Village, mostly directed by Stuart Rosenberg, who also did one of my favorite films in Cool Hand Luke (1967), stars Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, and Burt Young, who many probably remember most as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law from the Rocky films. Also appearing are Kenneth McMillan (Dune, Cat's Eye), Jack Kehoe (Midnight Run), M. Emmet Walsh (Blade Runner), and Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful). Also, it is noted that Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) made some uncredited directorial contributions to the film, but the extent of his involvement is unclear. I believe he was the original director, but then either quit or got fired...they're a temperamental lot out there in Hollywood...

Set in the Italian section of New York's Greenwich Village, the film features two characters, Charlie (Rourke), a well-dressed maitre d' with aspirations of someday owning his own restaurant, and Paulie (Roberts), Charlie's ever-scheming cousin who works in the same restaurant as Charlie, as a waiter. After Paulie gets caught skimming the checks (let's say the table orders six entrees...Paulie charges them for six, but then only reports three, pocketing the difference), both he and Charlie get canned. Now out of work and bills up the wazoo, Charlie must now find another job, but Paulie, who's got plans to buy into a racehorse, comes forth with a scheme, based on a tip, of a large amount of cash located in a safe of a local business. Reluctant, but needing the money, Charlie agrees to participate, and they do manage to crack the safe with help from an accomplice played by McMillan, but shortly things go sour, resulting in an accidental death of a cop. Not only that, but Charlie soon learns that the money they took belongs local psychotic Mob boss `Bedbug Eddie' (Young), something Paulie neglected to mention, who is more put off by the fact someone had the nerve to rob him, rather than the missing money. Let's just say Eddie's not too happy about the situation, and when Eddie's not happy, people tend to lose body parts.

I really enjoyed this film. I thought Rourke did well, playing his role very cool and calm, with a level of subtly he has since lost, as, I believe, he got too full of himself and became eccentric for the sake of being eccentric. Roberts is wonderful as Paulie, the smarmy, constantly in motion, hyperactive, fast-talking dreamer with a completely perverse sense of logic. An example of that is when he and Charlie just got fired for their restaurant gig, and Charlie is upset with Paulie as it was all his fault, but Paulie doesn't see it that way because if he knew his petty thievery was going to get Charlie fired, he wouldn't have done it...ergo, since he didn't know the outcome, it wasn't his fault. The weakest element in the film, I thought, was Hannah, who played Charlie's girlfriend Diane. There just seemed to be something missing, but this is a minor point as the rest of the actors, mostly seasoned pros, support the story well, especially that of Burt Young. I don't think his role required any great stretch for him, but he was definitely fun to watch. The real standout performance for me was that of Geraldine Page. Even though she only appeared in two scenes, and had about a total of five minutes on screen, she really made and impression (the second scene, in particular), so much so she was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in this film. She didn't win, but she did win a year later for her role in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). The film itself has a very authentic feel, much like that of a film others have mention being Mean Streets (1973), as it appears most of the film was shot on location, instead of on sets and back lots. Ultimately, Pope is a knock off of Mean Streets, but a really good one. I thought the music chosen for the film very good, especially that of Sinatra's Summer Wind, as it really set the mood for the movie well. The film runs right around two hours, but it didn't feel like it, as I was taken in by the story and highly interested in its outcome. Some points the movie did seem to drag a little, but I felt the time was used well as the plot was actually fairly intricate, involving many different elements, including a smattering of humor, raising the film above your standard mafia flick. I was mildly surprised by the lack of violence in the film, and even the most memorable point, a person losing an appendage, is off screen, allowing for the viewer to visualize rather than see it. My three favorite scenes are, in no particular order, the one with Geraldine Page's character talking with the crooked cops, Paulie giving Charlie tips on women, and Charlie and Paulie at the racetrack, looking for that ever elusive winner.

The non-anamorphic wide screen print on this DVD looks pretty good and the audio ain't bad, but it both could be better. MGM provides little in the way of special features, including only a trailer. As far as the meaning of the title of the film? Well, you'll just have to wait until the very end...

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must watch
Reviewed in Canada on July 18, 2019
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Love this movie, always have. The one liners from Eric Roberts are brilliant. Great movie.
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albertin michel
5.0 out of 5 stars Mickey rourke
Reviewed in France on January 12, 2013
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Mickey Rourke en imposait déjà par son talent quelques mois avant l'un des tous meilleurs films des années 80 je parle de "L'année du dragon" tandis qu'Eric Roberts était parfait en petite frappe multipliant les sales coups entrainant son cousin toujours plus loin.

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Goodclothesfan
5.0 out of 5 stars Too kool for skool
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2012
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This film is an absolute gem. Mickey Rourke at his coolist, a hilarious and touching portrait of friendship and the lengths that you sometimes have to go to to bail out the people you care for.
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YVES
5.0 out of 5 stars VINTAGE MOVIE
Reviewed in France on March 28, 2019
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VERY GOOD
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Honey
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2014
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Very good film.
Extremely entertaining and funny.
Rourke is a first class actor along with Eric Roberts.
Well worth watching.
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