The Many Saints of Newark

"Who made Tony Soprano?"

2021 2h 0m EN

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★6.3TMDB · 789🍅72%Rotten Tomatoes●60Metacritic★6.3IMDB · 67,621

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Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.

“Who made Tony Soprano?”

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Cast

Alessandro Nivola
Dickie Moltisanti
Leslie Odom Jr.
Harold McBrayer
Michael Gandolfini
Teenage Tony Soprano
Ray Liotta
"Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti / Salvatore “Sally” Moltisanti
Michela De Rossi
Giuseppina Moltisanti
Vera Farmiga
Livia Soprano
Corey Stoll
Junior Soprano
Jon Bernthal
Johnny Soprano

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alan Taylor
Writers: David Chase, Lawrence Konner
Languages: Italian, English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 26% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Italian, English.

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CAST

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303+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alan Taylor, shot by Kramer Morgenthau. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Christopher Tellefsen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Alessandro Nivola and Leslie Odom Jr. and Michael Gandolfini carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Alan Taylor directs. Kramer Morgenthau behind the camera. Christopher Tellefsen cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Italian, English.

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1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 26% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 5 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Italian, English.
5303+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Alan Taylor, shot by Kramer Morgenthau. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Editor Christopher Tellefsen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Alessandro Nivola and Leslie Odom Jr. and Michael Gandolfini carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Who made Tony Soprano?".
10IMDB entry: tt8110232 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 14 themes, including "new jersey", "italian american", "gangster", "street riots".

The technical file

Cinematography: Kramer Morgenthau
Editing: Christopher Tellefsen
Production design: Bob Shaw
Costume design: Amy Westcott
Makeup / hair: Nicki Ledermann
VFX supervisor: Erin W. Nash
Sound: Tom Fleischman
Stunt coordinator: G.A. Aguilar
Runtime: 120 min · 2h 0m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $13,037,403
Return: 26% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes: 72% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 60/100
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 67,621 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

4 nominations total

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tmdb280390232022-09-10
★ 1/10
The Many Saints of Newark is The Sopranos meets The Godfather Part II, and the result is so much less than the sum of its parts. Do we really need to know that Tony Soprano was once a chubby brat? Moreover, do we really want to know that that chubby brat grew up to be Michael Gandolfini? Michael would certainly be a chip off the old block, if his father had been Oswald Cobblepot instead of Jim Gandolfini. This is truly a case of the apple falling a million miles away from the tree, but then pretty much everyone here falls short of the original actors/characters (I was never really a fan of the TV show, and even I would rather watch that instead). Livia, Junior, Janice, Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante, Big Pussy; Soprano diehards will recognize all of these and several other names , but not much else. The only connection to the HBO series is Michael Imperioli, and even then it's just his voice used as little more than en excuse for some lame retrospective dramatic irony. When he sees Tony for the first time, baby Christopher starts crying his eyes out; someone takes the opportunity to randomly comment that “Some babies, when they come into the world, know all kinds of things from the other side”. So baby Chris could somehow sense that uncle Tony was going to eventually murder him in cold blood? And if so, a fat lot of good that prescience did him. As for the audience, we (even casual viewers like myself) remember very well that Tony Soprano strangled Christopher Moltisanti (which means 'many saints', hence the title of the film), because it’s practically the first thing that Imperioli tells us in the opening narration (to paraphrase Borges, saying something too much is almost as bad as not saying it). Writers David Chase and Lawrence Konner and director Alan Taylor even manage to ruin the only good thing about this piece of crap movie; i.e., the late, great Ray Liotta, who must have been paid very good money — and completely deserved it for appearing in this debacle — because the filmmakers kill off his character half an hour into the movie, just to introduce his identical twin (and I mean identical to a T; how many pairs of twins are still getting exactly the same haircuts in their late 60s?). Someone at New Line must have thought that Liotta was overpaid and demanded that the actor pulled double duty; how else to explain this farcical turn of events?

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