Movie Review- BROOKLYN RULES

HEADLINE: ** Bad Neighborhood, Bad Rules, Bad Movie **
TITLE: BROOKLYN RULES
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SS
Nudity: N

RATING: R
RELEASE: May 18, 2007; now on DVD
TIME: 99 minutes
STARRING: Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr., Scott Cann, Mena Suvari, Jerry Ferrara, and Monica Keena
DIRECTOR: Michael Corrente
PRODUCERS: Michael Corrente, Richard Barton Lewis and Marisa Polvino
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steven Bowman, Bonnie Comley, Billy Heinzerling, Stewart Lane, Darren Manelski, Chloe Kai O'Connor, Rachel Rothman, Paul Sciala, Peter Sciala, Terence Winter
WRITER: Terence Winter
DISTRIBUTOR: City Lights Pictures/City Lights Media Group

CONTENT: (PaPa, C, AbAbAb, APAPAP. LLL, VVV, SS, N, AA, D, MM) Strong pagan barbarous worldview centered on pride and defending your pride, with clear acknowledgement but rejection of Christian worldview and a terrible view of America; 144 obscenities and five profanities; very strong violence includes man tied up and shot in head, several men gunned down in ambush, man's ear cut off with a meat slicing machine, bloody fistfight over who gets to sit in a chair, and truck driver robbed; several scenes of fornication – not extremely graphic; female implied to be naked but only shoulders and above are shown; drinking in bars and at parties and one man not sober enough to drive; some smoking but no apparent drug use; and, cheating on exam, robbing a church collection plate, dishonesty, and threats and insults galore.

GENRE: Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults

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Danny Fisher, CEO
City Lights Media Group
(City Lights Pictures and Television)
3025 Olympic Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: (310) 264-0880
Fax: (806) 214-4177
Website: www.citylightsmedia.com

SUMMARY: Now out on DVD, BROOKLYN RULES tells the story of three boys who grow up and continue to bump into mob-related activity, including one of the boys who actually gets involved with the gangsters. BROOKLYN RULES is filled with foul language, murder, violence, and sex, and contains negative stereotypes regarding the people of Brooklyn.

IN BRIEF:

Now on DVD, BROOKLYN RULES tells the story of three boys who find a man in the woods murdered by the mob as he sat in his car. One boy takes a gun in the dead man's glove compartment. Another rescues a puppy from a crate in the back seat. As the boys grow up, they continue to bump into mob-related activity. Michael goes off to college, Carmine gets involved in the mob, and Bobby attempts to get a job at the post office.

BROOKLYN RULES is filled with foul language, murder, violence and sex. It makes the people of Brooklyn look stupid enough to follow rules that require them to wage war over who gets to sit in a chair at a restaurant. The "rule" in this movie seems to be that you must constantly insult others, use foul language as punctuation, and be prepared to kill a stranger who insults you in the same way your friends do on an ongoing basis. This is a sad example for any so-called intelligent life form. The world, including Brooklyn, needs inspirational stories, not depressing, ugly tragedies like BROOKLYN RULES.