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Film Analysis: A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a movie about a boy named Cologero who is torn between his bus drivning father, Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) and a local mob boss named Sonny (Chazz Palaminteri).Cologero witnesses a shooting outside his apartment involving Sonny. Cologero is then asked to identify the shooter. Knowing what the conciquences would be, Cologero lies and says he doesn't recognise the shooter all the while knowing it was Sonny. Sonny then sees something within Cologreo and takes him under his wing and teaches him all about the streets and making people respect you. This angers Lorenzo who doesn't want to see his son grow up to be a street gangster instead tries to tell him that "The workign man is the tough guy." Of course as a willful kid he

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