Second viewing.
In New York, a guy is some sort of debt collector for his uncle. His best friend is an irresponsible fellow who owes money to everyone. A better, more comprehensive synopsis is given on IMDb, and I will transcribe it here:
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The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future. Written by Dave Cook <cookd@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
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In my first viewing I could not connect to this film. I think I get its style better now, anyway I had a good time watching it. It is very predictable what the story will unfold to, the important is how it happens. There are several unexpected microevents which are pretty insignificant to the plot itself but add to the film's mood which shifts between humorously realistic and lyrically intimate. Keitel's character is not without a certain kinship to the one he played in Fingers a few years later; in both cases you see a man overburdened by his environment and by one or more persons around him.
Rating: 68 (up from 39)
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