WEBVTT 00:01:06.900 --> 00:01:10.630 Dear God in heaven. It's me, Frankie. Look. 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.240 I know I probably ain't one of your favorite people down here. 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:16.569 I got on some bad things here and there 00:01:16.569 --> 00:01:19.624 and I know I've been asking for a lot of favors lately, too. 00:01:19.624 --> 00:01:21.368 So maybe I've use most of mine up. 00:01:21.368 --> 00:01:23.290 I know you probably tried to 00:01:23.290 --> 00:01:25.429 help me out with this lottery thing tonight. 00:01:25.429 --> 00:01:27.340 But the way things are going, 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:29.610 it doesn't look as if it's going to work out. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.072 So I'm asking for one more favor. 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:35.590 Please don't add insult to injury here. 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:37.929 God, please, I'm begging you. 00:01:37.979 --> 00:01:40.389 I don't want to win the lottery. 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.429 I don't want to win the lottery. 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:44.540 I don't want to win the lottery. 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.694 - Your name is? - Frank Pesce. 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.119 - P-E-S... - C-E. 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.049 Okay. Here you are, Frank. I'm Julie. 00:02:29.099 --> 00:02:32.050 Welcome to the Empire Stakes. Follow me. 00:02:33.469 --> 00:02:36.430 I have you done for six. Where's the rest of the family? 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:38.710 - What? - Where's the rest of the family? 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:39.660 It's only me. 00:02:42.010 --> 00:02:43.620 What are you gonna do if you win? 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:45.370 I really don't know. 00:02:45.420 --> 00:02:47.886 Come on, tell me the truth. You feel lucky tonight? 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:51.420 You have no idea. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:04.985 Good luck, Mr Pesce. 00:03:08.619 --> 00:03:09.789 How you doing? 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.149 Good luck to you, man. 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:21.179 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Memory Lane himself - Joe Franklin. 00:03:27.260 --> 00:03:29.864 Okay. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. 00:03:29.864 --> 00:03:32.809 The big moment has arrived at long last. 00:03:32.839 --> 00:03:37.849 The very first New York State Lottery, the Empire Stakes, 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:43.354 with some lucky person receiving six million two hundred thousand dollars. 00:03:43.464 --> 00:03:45.960 The very first in New York state. 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:47.109 I know the excitement 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.230 has been mounting and generating 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:51.969 and mushrooming and snowballing 00:03:52.019 --> 00:03:55.160 and escalating and skyrocketing 00:03:55.220 --> 00:03:59.109 and the uh... contestants out there the uh... audience... 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.990 you're kind of palpitating and drooling 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:04.390 and salivating and getting ready now 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:07.283 for the moment... the moment has arrived 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:13.128 and the lucky person is... 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:17.279 Mr Frank Pesce. 00:06:04.919 --> 00:06:06.542 Are you happy now? 00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:11.209 Are you happy, God? You had to do this to me. 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:13.989 You weren't happy leaving me alone. 00:06:14.039 --> 00:06:17.290 Were you? 00:06:17.340 --> 00:06:18.739 I'll kill you. 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.059 God! 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.126 I never wanted the damn ticket. 00:06:24.404 --> 00:06:25.770 Why did you give it to me? 00:06:27.060 --> 00:06:28.365 I get up every morning. 00:06:28.433 --> 00:06:30.516 I'm fine, I'm a nice guy. 00:06:31.047 --> 00:06:32.610 I know I do something's wrong. 00:06:33.170 --> 00:06:36.460 I was perfectly happy in my life without it. 00:06:36.530 --> 00:06:40.390 - You couldn't leave me alone, could you? - What's going on out here? 00:06:40.440 --> 00:06:42.154 What the hell is your problem? 00:06:43.114 --> 00:06:44.735 Frank, is that you? 00:06:45.761 --> 00:06:48.823 And you? What the hell do you want? 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:50.812 Get back in there, Larry. 00:06:51.140 --> 00:06:52.060 What's the matter? 00:06:52.060 --> 00:06:53.650 I didn't put on here... 00:06:58.029 --> 00:07:00.630 A lot of good you ever did me. 00:07:01.529 --> 00:07:03.494 I'm gonna call the cops on you, Frank. 00:07:03.574 --> 00:07:04.390 I'm Catholic. 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:06.700 I can do whatever the hell I want. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.950 The atheist is here, 00:07:13.020 --> 00:07:13.925 Bring him in. 00:07:13.925 --> 00:07:14.830 I gotta go. 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:16.172 Merry Christmas, yeah. 00:07:18.310 --> 00:07:20.120 Look, Sergeant. You gotta let me go. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:21.830 And I ain't got a lot of time. 00:07:22.380 --> 00:07:24.660 This priest wants to press charges. 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:26.212 You messed up his manger. 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:30.130 Oh, Larry. I'm sorry. 00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:31.290 All right. 00:07:31.340 --> 00:07:34.030 Now, all right. 00:07:34.080 --> 00:07:37.202 All right, but why did you do it, Frankie? 00:07:38.699 --> 00:07:40.390 Just let me go. 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:41.919 All right? 00:07:42.419 --> 00:07:45.240 I just can't sit here and bullshit with you, guys. 00:07:46.510 --> 00:07:47.510 Uncuff him. 00:07:48.780 --> 00:07:49.926 Wait. 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:52.810 You know, Frank? 00:07:52.860 --> 00:07:54.245 I checked on what you said. 00:07:54.555 --> 00:07:56.557 Your brother is a cop with a 1A. 00:07:56.927 --> 00:07:58.649 You've got no prior record. 00:07:59.139 --> 00:08:01.238 You look like a nice Italian kid. 00:08:02.329 --> 00:08:05.359 What the hell are you doing throwing snowballs at the church, 00:08:05.359 --> 00:08:06.379 scaring the priest? 00:08:06.379 --> 00:08:09.181 It's Christmas Eve. Don't you belong somewhere? 00:08:13.979 --> 00:08:17.350 ... who take home 6.2 million dollars. 00:08:17.400 --> 00:08:18.814 When his name was called 00:08:18.814 --> 00:08:20.231 and he failed to come forward 00:08:20.231 --> 00:08:22.815 ushers discovered that Mr Pesce 00:08:22.815 --> 00:08:25.106 apparently had left the drawing ceremony. 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:28.339 At any rate, congratulations to Frank Pesce 00:08:28.389 --> 00:08:29.859 of Queens New York. 00:08:29.859 --> 00:08:31.329 Wherever you are. 00:08:31.379 --> 00:08:35.129 New Yorkers are flying over more bad economic news today. 00:08:35.329 --> 00:08:38.300 Some say our city is going down... 00:08:39.779 --> 00:08:41.140 That's you? 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:42.660 Same guy? 00:08:43.560 --> 00:08:44.393 Yeah. 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:48.525 And then you went and broke windows in the church? 00:08:48.565 --> 00:08:50.281 What are you? Some kind of mameluke? 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:54.166 It's a long story. 00:08:55.500 --> 00:08:58.030 You're not going anywhere, neither am I, 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.360 until you make some kind of sense out of this. 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.095 I swear to God the only way I know how to tell this story 00:09:04.095 --> 00:09:05.155 is from the beginning. 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:07.394 I got all night. 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:18.619 See, I got this... I got this curse. 00:09:21.959 --> 00:09:24.366 I've been lucky since the day I was born. 00:09:26.820 --> 00:09:28.540 It's like my mother... 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.460 She used to work at Lincoln Hospital so... 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:33.380 that's where I was supposed to be born. 00:09:34.380 --> 00:09:36.490 But she went into labor at a bingo 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:38.502 a couple of blocks from where we lived. 00:09:39.420 --> 00:09:43.077 So they had to rush her to Bellevue Hospital on 29th Street instead. 00:09:44.459 --> 00:09:47.256 Actually that was my first stroke of luck, 00:09:47.256 --> 00:09:49.982 because on that very night Lincoln Hospital ended up 00:09:49.982 --> 00:09:53.604 having a huge fire and the place nearly burnt to the ground. 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.710 603 is a combination, 00:09:59.760 --> 00:10:05.095 60 cents. 10 cents away. Now the other's a straight action. 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.533 717 for a dollar twenty... 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:13.895 I'll get right back. 00:10:14.760 --> 00:10:16.938 Would you like to see your son? 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:34.325 My mom said he always cried when he saw us for the first time. 00:10:34.505 --> 00:10:37.319 My brother, my sister, me. 00:10:43.650 --> 00:10:52.320 Come on. I'm gonna be late. 20 minutes from here to Radio City. 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:54.870 You don't want nothing. 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:57.995 - Let's walk. Such a beautiful night. -It's eight blocks. 00:10:57.995 --> 00:11:00.456 Yeah, but we're going to see the students' play. 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:10.434 When I was younger, my dad used to always seem like this giant to me. 00:11:10.434 --> 00:11:13.630 This guy who knew everything about everything. 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:15.010 What are you looking at? 00:11:15.130 --> 00:11:17.330 - There. - What's that? 00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:19.300 What's that say? 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:23.499 Well, that says today is President Eisenhower's birthday. 00:11:24.660 --> 00:11:26.550 I want to get my name up there. 00:11:26.990 --> 00:11:29.458 I wouldn't want to have it any other way, Frankie, 00:11:29.458 --> 00:11:31.954 but only great people get their names up there. 00:11:32.014 --> 00:11:33.780 How can I get my name? 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.537 You gotta do something big, Frankie. 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:38.040 How big? 00:11:38.040 --> 00:11:42.314 - Very very big. - How big? 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:45.640 This big. 00:11:49.560 --> 00:11:52.554 I guess everyone wants to make his father proud of them. 00:11:52.554 --> 00:11:55.510 So he doesn't feel like a jerk for having you. 00:11:55.560 --> 00:11:59.024 And I figured if I could get my name up on that building, 00:11:59.024 --> 00:12:02.290 at least I could have left some kind of mark on the world. 00:12:03.899 --> 00:12:07.270 In my neighborhood there were two ways to make it. 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:08.930 One's the right way 00:12:08.930 --> 00:12:10.595 and the other way is the fast way, 00:12:10.595 --> 00:12:14.127 and I gotta tell you the fast way looked pretty attractive to me as a kid. 00:12:14.167 --> 00:12:16.090 Wow! Look at that! 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:23.890 Loui Tucci is the biggest wise guy in the neighborhood. 00:12:23.940 --> 00:12:25.815 He's poisoned. Don't even look at him. 00:12:25.815 --> 00:12:28.566 Yeah, but I still like his car. 00:12:33.160 --> 00:12:36.635 I'll be better off walking Frankie. Come on. 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.450 My dad could always talk circles around everybody 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:43.790 and I swear to God I should have run for office 00:12:43.790 --> 00:12:44.935 and been a politician. 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.289 There was this odd thing going on 00:12:47.289 --> 00:12:48.774 between him and Loui Tucci. 00:12:49.114 --> 00:12:51.017 I know my father couldn't stand him 00:12:51.017 --> 00:12:52.970 yet they seemed to be spending a lot of time together, 00:12:52.970 --> 00:12:55.289 especially when my dad lost his trucking company, 00:12:55.329 --> 00:12:56.590 which I'll get to later. 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:02.460 You say don't look at the guy 00:13:02.570 --> 00:13:05.589 because he's no good, then you hang around with him. 00:13:06.319 --> 00:13:08.790 - You mean Tucci. - Yeah. 00:13:09.060 --> 00:13:11.126 Come on, Frankie. It's business. 00:13:11.330 --> 00:13:13.045 You do business with that guy? 00:13:13.980 --> 00:13:14.745 Never. 00:13:15.839 --> 00:13:16.865 You see, Frankie, 00:13:17.530 --> 00:13:19.440 I don't want to be in business with him. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.320 I don't want to spend any time with a guy like that. 00:13:22.740 --> 00:13:24.632 - That's why you're with him? - Yeah. 00:13:25.380 --> 00:13:27.870 - Because you don't want to be? - That's right. 00:13:28.540 --> 00:13:30.490 You mean you spend time with them 00:13:30.540 --> 00:13:33.475 because you don't want to spend time with them. 00:13:33.475 --> 00:13:34.833 That's exactly right. 00:13:34.990 --> 00:13:36.740 If I spend less time with them, 00:13:36.740 --> 00:13:38.820 I'd have to spend even more time with them. 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:41.905 So if you spend no time with them... 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:43.800 Then I'd be with him constantly. 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:47.400 I can't wait until I grow up, Pop, 00:13:48.280 --> 00:13:50.686 so I can know what the hell you're talking about. 00:13:51.300 --> 00:13:52.939 Get out of here, wise guy. 00:13:55.800 --> 00:13:56.690 Frankie! 00:13:57.660 --> 00:13:59.110 Don't be late. 00:13:59.160 --> 00:14:00.830 Mama's cooking ginger paste. 00:14:01.234 --> 00:14:02.234 Yeak, dad. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:03.804 Growing up didn't help. 00:14:04.184 --> 00:14:06.930 I still don't know what the hell he's talking about. 00:14:10.680 --> 00:14:14.780 This luck thing kept on happening time after time. 00:14:15.300 --> 00:14:18.065 I remember one time I was hanging out with my friend Jimmy Vitello, 00:14:18.065 --> 00:14:19.707 whose father was also in the mob. 00:14:19.707 --> 00:14:23.006 I mean in fact he was the biggest mobster in the tri-state area. 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:33.530 Whoa! Can you believe it? It was just laying here! 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.760 Hey, let's take it down to Earf's. 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:40.330 I'll give you five dollars. 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:42.185 - Five dollars? - Yeah. 00:14:42.185 --> 00:14:43.570 - Are you nuts? 00:14:43.570 --> 00:14:45.770 The thing must be worth a couple hundred bucks. 00:14:45.770 --> 00:14:47.433 Don't be a fucking stiff. 00:14:47.510 --> 00:14:48.920 What a mouth you got! 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:50.950 You kiss your mother with that mouth? 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:52.179 Where'd you get this? 00:14:54.549 --> 00:14:55.854 God left it for us. 00:14:55.854 --> 00:14:58.550 Well, I don't want him coming around here looking for it. 00:14:59.170 --> 00:15:00.549 Get it out of here. 00:15:02.479 --> 00:15:04.220 You know who my father is? 00:15:04.280 --> 00:15:07.072 We don't want to have a little misunderstanding, do we? 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:18.104 10 bucks, that's it. Now get out of here, little bastards! 00:15:18.104 --> 00:15:19.040 Go ahead. 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:22.260 To a kid this seemed very impressive. 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.070 All you had to do was mention Jimmy Vitello's father 00:15:25.150 --> 00:15:27.789 and, boom, you got whatever the hell you wanted. 00:15:27.839 --> 00:15:29.929 So no matter how far out of line Jimmy got 00:15:29.969 --> 00:15:31.870 the cops never showed up at his house. 00:15:32.760 --> 00:15:35.469 However a member of New York's finest 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:36.994 did end up in our house. 00:15:37.254 --> 00:15:39.663 My brother Vito decided to become a cop. 00:15:39.733 --> 00:15:43.069 Personally I think it was like getting the wolf to watch the chickens, 00:15:43.249 --> 00:15:46.270 but at least somebody was doing something for the family name. 00:15:57.010 --> 00:15:59.275 Meanwhile I hung around with a bunch of guys 00:15:59.275 --> 00:16:01.700 who were doing absolutely nothing with their lives. 00:16:04.079 --> 00:16:05.284 There was Lenny Nifty. 00:16:05.284 --> 00:16:07.780 You know, we called it needle nose. 00:16:08.070 --> 00:16:10.894 This guy was the definition of postnasal drip. 00:16:10.944 --> 00:16:13.149 Hey, Frank. You know something, Frank? 00:16:13.199 --> 00:16:15.172 Girls love poetry. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.288 Dig this. 00:16:16.554 --> 00:16:19.126 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:22.930 Grips, baby, it is Petty Pace from day... 00:16:22.980 --> 00:16:24.739 Then there was Dom the bomb. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.060 Hello, Frankie, how are you today? 00:16:28.190 --> 00:16:30.669 Yeah, yeah, yeah, now listen Frankie... 00:16:30.719 --> 00:16:32.710 This guy actually thought he could sing. 00:16:32.850 --> 00:16:35.390 What am I gonna do? I gotta lose some weight. 00:16:35.550 --> 00:16:37.080 I think I got a gland problem. 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:38.855 Rocky Sav had a gland problem 00:16:38.855 --> 00:16:40.342 ever since the day he was born. 00:16:40.592 --> 00:16:44.050 Alvus Vinus spat on everything in sight whenever he talked. 00:16:44.180 --> 00:16:46.035 And then there was Jimmy Vitello. 00:16:46.795 --> 00:16:48.672 Boy, wanna make some money? 00:16:49.092 --> 00:16:52.075 Ten thousand dollars cash, tax free. 00:16:52.075 --> 00:16:53.800 We had some pizza the other night. 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.199 Extra cheese, sausage, pepperoni... 00:17:03.599 --> 00:17:04.719 Forget about it. 00:17:05.639 --> 00:17:07.249 While I was hanging around on the street 00:17:07.249 --> 00:17:09.279 bullshitting with my friends all day long, 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:10.919 my dad was out breaking his ass. 00:17:10.919 --> 00:17:13.046 Ever since he lost his own company, 00:17:13.099 --> 00:17:15.920 he had been working as a driver for some other outfit. 00:17:19.809 --> 00:17:22.513 So every day he had to take the subway to Penn Station. 00:17:22.513 --> 00:17:25.580 Then he would catch a connecting train all the way to Union City 00:17:25.580 --> 00:17:28.760 to drive a truck five days a week through City traffic. 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:46.260 No wonder the guy had problems relaxing. 00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:48.910 This city is full of freaking dogs. 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:50.245 We gotta get out of here. 00:17:50.245 --> 00:17:51.317 I've seen that. 00:17:51.317 --> 00:17:54.494 We need a house out of Manhattan, a nice house with our own lawn. 00:17:54.840 --> 00:17:55.815 That's what we need. 00:17:55.885 --> 00:17:58.320 You know, Pop? It's funny that you're saying that, 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:00.409 because of what I've been thinking. 00:18:00.449 --> 00:18:02.230 I can't wait to hear this. 00:18:02.280 --> 00:18:06.790 The way I figure is that the future is in outer space. 00:18:06.840 --> 00:18:08.970 Maybe I could become an astronaut. 00:18:09.040 --> 00:18:10.673 It's the last frontier, Pop. 00:18:12.059 --> 00:18:13.080 An astronaut? 00:18:13.620 --> 00:18:14.985 Think about it. Look, Pop. 00:18:15.334 --> 00:18:18.735 I could become the first Italian on the moon. 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:21.455 Oh, don't laugh. 00:18:22.860 --> 00:18:23.839 I wanna... 00:18:24.179 --> 00:18:25.454 I wanna do things 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:28.150 that I never done before. 00:18:28.280 --> 00:18:29.040 Oh! 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:31.810 Why don't you try going inside 00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:33.580 and cleaning up your fucking room? 00:18:37.100 --> 00:18:39.327 Come on, Pop, I'm serious. 00:18:41.340 --> 00:18:44.238 I got longings and desires like everybody. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.530 Are you all right? 00:18:46.860 --> 00:18:49.630 Is there little people going around in your head? 00:18:49.630 --> 00:18:50.830 Or are you putting me on? 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.160 Because I'm talking about reality, here, Frankie. 00:18:55.325 --> 00:18:56.667 Reality, you get it? 00:18:56.667 --> 00:18:58.450 I'm trying to move us to Queens 00:18:58.500 --> 00:19:00.489 and you're talking about picking up 00:19:00.539 --> 00:19:02.192 fucking moon rocks. 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:05.829 Wow! 00:19:06.049 --> 00:19:07.934 You know what your problem is? 00:19:08.084 --> 00:19:09.066 What's my problem? 00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:11.230 Your dreams are too small. 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.310 Anyway when I was 18 my father got his dream 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:19.825 and moved us all to Queens. 00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:23.749 He got his other dream too, his own lawn. 00:19:24.179 --> 00:19:26.940 Every afternoon like clockwork he will come home 00:19:27.040 --> 00:19:28.360 and set up the sprinkler. 00:19:39.179 --> 00:19:40.804 So what are we eating tonight? 00:19:41.190 --> 00:19:42.465 She had to order a couple. 00:19:42.465 --> 00:19:44.282 Could you watch your language, please? 00:19:44.282 --> 00:19:45.246 The hell did it go. 00:19:45.246 --> 00:19:46.268 You want this? 00:19:46.268 --> 00:19:49.530 - Why don't you just stop liking pizza? - It's a waste of money. 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:52.330 But gambling is not a waste of money, uh? 00:19:52.380 --> 00:19:54.850 Who's gambling? You see me gambling? 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:57.835 I heard you took your son Frankie to the track yesterday. 00:19:57.835 --> 00:20:00.790 You couldn't buy him a miserable hot dog for a buck, 00:20:00.790 --> 00:20:02.780 but I bet you spent four hundred dollars 00:20:02.780 --> 00:20:04.568 on a horse that came in dead last. 00:20:05.760 --> 00:20:06.631 Go ahead. 00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:08.664 Tell me I'm wrong. 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:12.286 You see my name on this? 00:20:13.140 --> 00:20:15.550 You see my name anywhere? 00:20:15.600 --> 00:20:18.009 I'm so sorry. That must have been 00:20:18.059 --> 00:20:19.859 some other guy wearing your pants. 00:20:22.020 --> 00:20:24.129 How much does the pizza cost? 00:20:24.179 --> 00:20:25.690 Seven bucks. 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:26.969 Seven bucks, huh? 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:30.002 It probably cost 25 cents to make. 00:20:31.080 --> 00:20:33.270 - So... - So? 00:20:33.930 --> 00:20:35.060 I'm a man of principle 00:20:35.060 --> 00:20:39.704 and I ain't paying 27 times what it's worth. That's so. 00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:44.118 Not for nothing, Pop. But did you pay for this. 00:20:45.299 --> 00:20:47.144 You're making a joke, Frankie? 00:20:47.144 --> 00:20:49.737 My family could start a fight over absolutely anything. 00:20:50.047 --> 00:20:51.850 What's the weather for tomorrow? 00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:53.530 I heard it's gonna rain. 00:20:53.580 --> 00:20:54.955 That ain't what I heard. 00:20:54.955 --> 00:20:56.432 What the hell do you hear? 00:20:56.432 --> 00:20:57.631 Never mind. Frankie. 00:20:57.631 --> 00:20:58.724 Where'd you hear rain? 00:20:59.290 --> 00:21:00.520 I heard it on the radio. 00:21:00.520 --> 00:21:02.800 The weather man says it's gonna rain tomorrow. 00:21:02.800 --> 00:21:04.830 Typical, Vito. You listen to the radio? 00:21:04.830 --> 00:21:06.035 They're always wrong. 00:21:06.035 --> 00:21:08.910 Hey hey ho ho, do me a favor with the goddamn weather here. 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:10.520 With the weather, with the rain, 00:21:10.520 --> 00:21:12.660 with Mars with the rain who gives a shit 00:21:12.660 --> 00:21:14.508 about sun and rain? 00:21:14.590 --> 00:21:15.299 I do, Pop, 00:21:15.299 --> 00:21:17.770 you don't pay ten dollars to get your hair done. 00:21:17.820 --> 00:21:20.170 My hair frizzes is in the rain. 00:21:20.170 --> 00:21:22.110 Listen, witch. Leave your broom at home, 00:21:22.110 --> 00:21:24.080 don't go out and your hair won't get wet. 00:21:24.080 --> 00:21:26.710 This Christmas I got two seaters you 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:28.680 you could just jump right on with me. 00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:32.104 Fucking shit! 00:21:32.104 --> 00:21:34.289 Who's gonna marry you with a mouth like that! 00:21:34.679 --> 00:21:38.320 Two months later she married a Sicilian guy named Tony. 00:21:44.100 --> 00:21:46.970 And Tony didn't make too big of a hit with the family. 00:22:09.985 --> 00:22:12.885 The Vietnam war was raging full force. 00:22:17.820 --> 00:22:21.209 Guys from the neighborhood were coming up in boxes every week. 00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:28.719 We all got letters in the mail 00:22:28.719 --> 00:22:30.970 and had to go to the draft board to sign up. 00:22:31.060 --> 00:22:34.189 So we were about to do what was right for our country. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:37.120 You know, I just developed a theory on life. 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:38.455 Oh, yeah. What's that? 00:22:38.975 --> 00:22:39.920 Okay, listen, 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:41.370 because it's very complicated. 00:22:41.590 --> 00:22:44.180 First you're born and you're like a baby, 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.122 a child, and then you start the adolescence. 00:22:49.260 --> 00:22:50.950 Then you grow old, 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.290 and then you grow old, and then you die. 00:22:53.340 --> 00:22:55.145 And that's it. 00:22:55.545 --> 00:22:56.330 Like you said, 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.390 no offense, 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:01.581 but that's the stupidest fucking thing I ever... 00:23:03.179 --> 00:23:06.309 All right, laugh. But if you stop and think about it, 00:23:06.309 --> 00:23:08.240 it makes a lot of sense. 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:13.330 Nearly a thousand eighteen year olds who 00:23:13.380 --> 00:23:15.129 have reported a city with it. 00:23:15.179 --> 00:23:16.989 Getting a load of these guys I figured 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.533 we could win a Vietnam War in about 15 minutes. 00:23:34.133 --> 00:23:38.498 Quiet down, you motherfuckers! 00:23:39.179 --> 00:23:41.410 This guy looks tough. 00:23:41.460 --> 00:23:44.530 Yeah, he looks real tough. 00:23:44.580 --> 00:23:46.210 Donnie Frank. 00:23:46.260 --> 00:23:51.790 All right, as of this minute, 00:23:51.840 --> 00:23:53.796 all of you here 00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:59.830 is now the property of the United States government. 00:23:59.880 --> 00:24:04.070 Now, if anybody here 00:24:04.320 --> 00:24:05.843 has been in jail, 00:24:07.020 --> 00:24:09.558 who is out on bail, 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:15.849 please move to the right side of the auditorium. 00:24:25.710 --> 00:24:28.020 All the fucking room got up. 00:24:34.080 --> 00:24:36.745 You've got to be shitting me. 00:24:37.952 --> 00:24:39.162 Excuse me, sir. 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:47.582 I don't think it's fair that we got to take a test that we didn't study for. 00:24:48.370 --> 00:24:52.066 It's a goddamn urine exmination, boy! 00:24:52.919 --> 00:24:55.830 I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought it was something else. 00:24:56.280 --> 00:24:57.879 What's your name, boy? 00:25:00.780 --> 00:25:02.244 Frank Pesce, sir. 00:25:04.372 --> 00:25:06.962 You know? Pesce means fish in italian. 00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:10.363 I don't give a goddamn what it means. 00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:14.968 - Sorry, sir. - Is there something wrong with you, boy? 00:25:18.059 --> 00:25:18.800 No. 00:25:19.380 --> 00:25:21.939 Not that I'm aware of, sir. 00:25:22.679 --> 00:25:25.390 You got a high school diploma? 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:26.250 No, sir. 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:31.270 You ain't got no high school diploma? 00:25:31.320 --> 00:25:34.179 No, sir. No diploma, sir. 00:25:41.700 --> 00:25:43.280 I think he likes you. 00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:49.718 Okay, cover your left eye and read line seven on the chart. 00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:00.799 Get out of here. 00:26:01.679 --> 00:26:02.733 All right. 00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:05.230 Yeah. 00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:07.853 Where the hell is Frank Pesce? 00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:09.562 Pesce! 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:12.010 Frank Pesce, get the hell out of here. 00:26:12.060 --> 00:26:13.150 Yes, sir. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:17.950 Did I not ask you if you had a high school diploma? 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:20.890 Yes, sir. You asked me that. I remember you asking me that. 00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:24.070 And what did you tell me? 00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:28.810 That I didn't have one. 00:26:28.860 --> 00:26:33.729 According to my files, you have a high school diploma. 00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:35.311 We have got one, 00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:36.969 just not on me. 00:26:37.579 --> 00:26:40.054 You get the hell up there and see the psychiatrist. 00:26:40.164 --> 00:26:41.685 Get the hell out of here. 00:26:42.659 --> 00:26:44.470 You got four cards in your hand... 00:26:44.520 --> 00:26:45.899 I don't if... 00:26:45.919 --> 00:26:47.220 It's too early in the game. 00:26:47.230 --> 00:26:48.480 I'm picking them up. 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.760 Here comes General Custer. 00:26:56.540 --> 00:26:58.575 Come here, Frank. I want to talk to you. 00:26:58.575 --> 00:27:00.179 10 million guys trying to beat the draft 00:27:00.179 --> 00:27:01.450 and only you could get away with it. 00:27:01.460 --> 00:27:02.275 What do you mean? 00:27:02.275 --> 00:27:03.725 You see this letter? 00:27:03.760 --> 00:27:05.860 The United States government thinks that 00:27:05.860 --> 00:27:07.653 you are a calculated risk. 00:27:08.520 --> 00:27:09.725 It's that good or bad? 00:27:09.775 --> 00:27:14.030 - They think you are nuts. - So now the Army knows 00:27:14.030 --> 00:27:16.749 what the whole neighborhood knows. You're fucking crazy. 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:18.769 I'm very sorry I'm letting you guys down, 00:27:18.949 --> 00:27:20.855 by not stepping on a landmine. 00:27:21.170 --> 00:27:22.079 What's so funny? 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.239 I'm supposed to go to all my friends in the neighborhood 00:27:24.239 --> 00:27:25.679 and say that my son's a nut job. 00:27:25.679 --> 00:27:27.770 That's why he's not in the Army, huh? 00:27:27.770 --> 00:27:29.640 You got to have mental illness, right? 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:31.210 And I'll tell you something else. 00:27:31.300 --> 00:27:35.880 You're ruined, you're ruined. You'll never get a city job, never. 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.160 Excuse me. I'll just get a rope. I'll hang myself. 00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:44.220 Mentally disqualified just reflects 00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:45.490 on the whole family. 00:27:45.490 --> 00:27:48.235 So I got out of the war but I knew it was no accident. 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:50.205 It was my lucky star. 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:55.260 What do you have to figure out? 00:28:01.929 --> 00:28:03.009 My dad was wrong. 00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:05.270 I did end up getting a city job, 00:28:05.310 --> 00:28:08.539 and it ended up being the luckiest thing to happen to me yet. 00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:12.470 And it would show itself in the face of Maria Rios. 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.872 The 7:10 train can't leave at 6 30. 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:32.360 Ma'am. 00:28:32.760 --> 00:28:36.648 They call it the 7:10 train because it leaves at seven ten. 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:40.473 Ah, you thought that was the number of the train. 00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:42.788 I see. 00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:44.570 What an idiot! 00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:50.339 No, no. Not 7:45. 00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:54.000 Ma'am, trust me on my mother's eyes. 00:28:54.100 --> 00:28:56.451 The train leaves at 8 30. 00:28:57.539 --> 00:28:58.680 I don't care. 00:28:59.460 --> 00:29:00.529 I don't care. 00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:03.850 All right, all right. I'll tell you what. 00:29:03.900 --> 00:29:06.109 Why don't you come down here at 7:45 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.054 and if the fucking thing starts moving 00:29:08.054 --> 00:29:09.050 jump on it? 00:29:14.270 --> 00:29:15.590 Frank, you're bad. 00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:18.630 You know you got the most beautiful eyes. 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:20.924 Cut it down, Frankie, we're gonna get caught. 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:23.470 We're not gonna get caught. 00:29:23.520 --> 00:29:25.302 I own this place. 00:29:38.700 --> 00:29:39.557 Hey, look. 00:29:42.349 --> 00:29:44.459 I'm gonna make a family announcement. 00:29:44.459 --> 00:29:47.059 I'd like to congratulate my youngest son Frankie Jr, 00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:50.490 who bears my name, for having been fired today. 00:29:53.600 --> 00:29:57.769 You held that job for uh... eight months? 00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:01.450 That's a record. I'm pointing out your progress. 00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:03.310 Dad, I didn't like that job anyway. 00:30:03.310 --> 00:30:05.377 Besides I got a new angle on my life. 00:30:05.750 --> 00:30:08.380 - I can't wait to hear this. - Yeah, me too. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:09.580 Shut up. 00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:14.590 While I was working there, 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:17.120 I was thinking I never had to look at the board, 00:30:17.210 --> 00:30:19.490 I always knew which trains went where, 00:30:19.490 --> 00:30:21.000 I knew every schedule by heart. 00:30:21.310 --> 00:30:22.570 You know what that means. 00:30:23.520 --> 00:30:26.035 You got a natural talent for useless information. 00:30:27.667 --> 00:30:29.847 No, it means I have a good head for numbers. 00:30:29.983 --> 00:30:31.893 I could be in an accounting firm. 00:30:32.106 --> 00:30:33.686 That's a terrific idea, Frankie. 00:30:33.872 --> 00:30:35.562 You can do that on account. 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:37.040 On account of what? 00:30:37.125 --> 00:30:39.545 On account of you, moron! 00:30:42.149 --> 00:30:45.310 If they made you a detective anything is possible, you horned one. 00:30:45.329 --> 00:30:46.810 Hey, don't curse. 00:30:46.860 --> 00:30:48.489 Can I shoot him for saying that? 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:52.150 I got something very serious to say here. 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:54.724 I've been thinking about that lawn out there. 00:30:55.404 --> 00:30:57.369 Bluegrass of Kentucky, what do you think? 00:30:57.419 --> 00:30:58.940 I got a relative in Kentucky... 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:00.729 Shut up! 00:31:00.779 --> 00:31:02.170 What the hell is it? 00:31:02.220 --> 00:31:03.694 That's the best grass there is. 00:31:04.269 --> 00:31:05.760 Grass is grass, Pop. 00:31:05.850 --> 00:31:08.360 You don't know a damn thing about anything, do you? 00:31:08.550 --> 00:31:11.740 Enough with this lawn already. 00:31:12.020 --> 00:31:14.959 Yeah, you're driving everybody crazy with that lawn. 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:23.249 What happened, Tommy? 00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:25.589 Got dressed in a hurry tonight? 00:31:26.159 --> 00:31:27.462 You left your shirt home? 00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:30.295 Ask her. She hasn't done the wash in a week. 00:31:30.375 --> 00:31:32.530 - What? - What do you mean by "she"? 00:31:32.580 --> 00:31:33.940 Her name's Madeline. 00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:36.091 And what is she? Your servant? 00:31:36.840 --> 00:31:38.425 Like I'm not your servant. 00:31:38.425 --> 00:31:39.680 That's different. 00:31:40.860 --> 00:31:42.030 How's it different? 00:31:42.280 --> 00:31:43.655 It's different, that's all. 00:31:43.735 --> 00:31:46.192 Pop, could you just not start tonight, please? 00:31:46.462 --> 00:31:48.273 Ma, thanks for spaghetti. 00:31:48.273 --> 00:31:49.141 It was great. 00:31:49.141 --> 00:31:51.079 What's wrong? Where you going? 00:31:51.299 --> 00:31:52.654 I'm going out. Can you tell? 00:31:52.654 --> 00:31:53.479 Where you going? 00:31:54.059 --> 00:31:56.610 - I got a date. - With whom? 00:31:57.179 --> 00:31:58.123 With a girl. 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:00.945 - What girl? - Maria. 00:32:00.945 --> 00:32:01.797 Who's Maria? 00:32:01.797 --> 00:32:03.560 The Spanish girl from Spanish Harlem, 00:32:03.560 --> 00:32:05.375 the one you told me to stay away from. 00:32:05.375 --> 00:32:08.485 Three months he's been a detective and he's knocking on everybody. 00:32:08.535 --> 00:32:09.537 Hey, he's right. 00:32:10.529 --> 00:32:13.060 - Mum, you know where my gun is? - Frankie. 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.489 I told you to stay away from her. 00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:17.010 But she's a nice girl. 00:32:17.070 --> 00:32:18.940 Do you see my service revolver around? 00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:21.099 - I'm late. - I don't care how nice she is. 00:32:21.099 --> 00:32:22.819 She's Spanish, she's a Puerto Rican, 00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:25.009 and historically Puerto Ricans hate Italians. 00:32:25.849 --> 00:32:27.419 If you go up the Spanish Harlem, 00:32:27.419 --> 00:32:28.749 you're gonna get hurt. 00:32:29.389 --> 00:32:30.454 Where's my gun? 00:32:30.524 --> 00:32:31.941 Enough with the gun, Jesus! 00:32:31.981 --> 00:32:35.450 I gotta do everything around here. I gotta find your gun. 00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:37.480 Maybe I should ride in the car with you. 00:32:37.490 --> 00:32:40.331 Dad, her brother Jesús loves me like a brother, all right? 00:32:40.740 --> 00:32:41.990 Do what you want. 00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:15.175 Hey, Jesús. How you doing? 00:33:17.340 --> 00:33:19.120 Keep away from my sister. 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.279 Help me! 00:33:38.969 --> 00:33:40.930 Is it a catholic hospital? 00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:42.910 I'm a catholic. 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.983 If I'm gonna die, I want to die in a catholic hospital. 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.071 It's nothing serious, 00:33:51.071 --> 00:33:52.484 it's just a little problem. 00:33:52.484 --> 00:33:54.676 He just wants to talk to you just for a minute. 00:33:54.706 --> 00:33:55.619 You're all right? 00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:57.669 Looks good, huh? 00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.878 How are you, Frank? 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.369 What is it? I'm gonna be okay, am I? 00:34:02.779 --> 00:34:04.507 God was with you on this one. 00:34:04.574 --> 00:34:06.241 If you hadn't received this injury, 00:34:06.241 --> 00:34:08.449 we'd never caught this other problem in time. 00:34:09.359 --> 00:34:10.170 What? 00:34:11.700 --> 00:34:13.611 I'm gonna be okay, am I? 00:34:13.810 --> 00:34:15.409 X-ray show that you have a tumor 00:34:15.409 --> 00:34:18.009 on one of your ribs, right below your stabbed bone. 00:34:18.244 --> 00:34:19.197 A tumor? 00:34:20.067 --> 00:34:21.220 That's cancer! 00:34:21.341 --> 00:34:23.590 I'm going to have to go in there and remove it. 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.970 What's with his eyes? 00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:28.550 It's a little condition or something. 00:34:28.550 --> 00:34:29.500 Condition? 00:34:30.540 --> 00:34:31.319 It's funny. 00:34:31.859 --> 00:34:33.489 No, it ain't funny. 00:34:34.349 --> 00:34:36.964 This guy's got to cut me up and look inside of me. 00:34:37.044 --> 00:34:39.282 One minute he's looking at the air conditioner 00:34:39.282 --> 00:34:41.135 and the next minute he's looking at me. 00:34:41.135 --> 00:34:42.942 Thank you, Frank. You gotta calm down, 00:34:42.942 --> 00:34:44.170 you gotta take it easy. 00:34:44.220 --> 00:34:47.080 I mean this surgeon is one of the finest in New York. 00:34:47.879 --> 00:34:49.961 He operated on cousin Ernie's lungs. 00:34:50.580 --> 00:34:51.850 Cousin Earnie is dead. 00:34:52.859 --> 00:34:54.034 That couldn't be helped. 00:34:54.034 --> 00:34:56.680 He died of a heart attack. His lungs were clean. 00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:59.830 The Neptune Society, a simple dignified 00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:02.640 low-cost alternative to the high-priced funeral 00:35:02.720 --> 00:35:04.892 wants you to spend your money on the living, 00:35:04.892 --> 00:35:06.221 not the undertaker. 00:35:06.601 --> 00:35:07.885 Oh yeah, look at that. 00:35:07.885 --> 00:35:10.467 It's one of Dr Puccini's patients up there right now. 00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.716 What are you laughing about? 00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:22.970 I'm out of my mind with depression. 00:35:23.050 --> 00:35:24.584 I gotta see this nun on my floor 00:35:24.584 --> 00:35:27.057 for a little spiritual advice, to help me through all this. 00:35:27.057 --> 00:35:28.278 You know what she says? 00:35:28.928 --> 00:35:32.004 Whatever is God's will is God's will, my son. 00:35:36.890 --> 00:35:38.520 The truth is that it was cancer. 00:35:38.700 --> 00:35:41.430 But I ended up beating it because they caught it in time. 00:35:41.830 --> 00:35:43.710 Needless to say I recovered quickly. 00:35:44.250 --> 00:35:47.220 And though I didn't live in Queens, I was always on 29th Street, 00:35:47.220 --> 00:35:49.060 because that's where the action was. 00:36:02.220 --> 00:36:04.170 The club was run by Fili D'Neb, 00:36:04.170 --> 00:36:05.805 the local bookmaker who smelled 00:36:05.805 --> 00:36:08.380 like he was constantly sucking on a clove of garlic. 00:36:10.730 --> 00:36:13.250 How can you get such great cards like this 00:36:13.310 --> 00:36:14.901 and be so fucking stupid. 00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:16.695 God protects the dumb. 00:36:17.235 --> 00:36:19.062 You need a lifetime protection. 00:36:19.512 --> 00:36:20.770 How about this one? 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:23.090 How does a guy get stabbed up in Spanish Harlem 00:36:23.090 --> 00:36:25.664 and have it turned into the thing that saves his life? 00:36:25.664 --> 00:36:29.100 The problem is you got the luck. You were born with it. 00:36:29.100 --> 00:36:32.060 The pitiful part is you don't know what the hell to do with it. 00:36:32.060 --> 00:36:35.015 Some people are born with it and they know what to do with it. 00:36:37.780 --> 00:36:41.759 Philly The Nap, a narcoleptic. 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:43.780 He would nod out without warning, 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:45.670 and a second later he'd snap out of it. 00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:49.975 How long was I out? 00:36:50.027 --> 00:36:51.217 Three and a half weeks. 00:36:52.260 --> 00:36:58.305 A wise guy, right? And you, learn what to do with the luck. 00:36:58.305 --> 00:36:59.890 You got it. 00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:02.080 Will you take it downwind, will you? 00:37:14.950 --> 00:37:17.615 Remember what I told you about the right way to make it 00:37:17.615 --> 00:37:18.629 and the fast way? 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.099 The right way wasn't working out too well for me, 00:37:22.339 --> 00:37:24.251 so I decided to try it the fast way. 00:37:25.020 --> 00:37:27.945 These heavyweight wise guys came up from Mulberry Street 00:37:27.945 --> 00:37:29.579 to set up the gambling operation. 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.170 They chose the bakery next door 00:37:32.220 --> 00:37:34.599 after talking to Billy, the guy who owned them. 00:37:41.224 --> 00:37:42.624 Still being a jerko, 00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:45.150 I went to look for a job as a guy at the front door 00:37:45.150 --> 00:37:47.230 instead of looking for one's deployment. 00:37:47.520 --> 00:37:49.820 So I talked to Jimmy about getting a job there. 00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:55.793 I was told to talk to you. 00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.009 Yeah? And by who? 00:37:58.714 --> 00:38:00.084 I can't say. 00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:01.880 You know somebody? 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:03.100 Yeah. 00:38:03.540 --> 00:38:04.873 But I can't say. 00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:06.960 Who do you know? 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:09.560 I told you I can't say. 00:38:10.070 --> 00:38:11.769 What the fuck is his name? 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:15.374 Jimmy Vitello. 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.257 No. Never mention no names. 00:38:18.390 --> 00:38:20.500 Never mention names like that in this joint. 00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:22.319 It's a bad thing to do. Never never... 00:38:22.319 --> 00:38:25.839 - You asked me! - You're wrong there. 00:38:25.859 --> 00:38:27.763 Anyway I got the job, 00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.440 and I had enough money saved to go in with Vito on a car. 00:38:33.850 --> 00:38:36.310 - Who's gonna talk? - I'm talking, this is bullshit. 00:38:36.370 --> 00:38:39.559 You know I want to order this car before it goes out of the day. 00:38:43.350 --> 00:38:45.675 Right with a white vinyl top and rear defroster. 00:38:45.675 --> 00:38:48.702 AM FM stereo, tinted windows, and a tilted wheel. 00:38:49.023 --> 00:38:50.551 Shut up, all right? 00:38:50.640 --> 00:38:53.289 For our 200th time, I know how to order a car. 00:38:53.339 --> 00:38:56.527 - Just relax. - White with a white vinyl top. 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:09.610 What's this? This is not our car. 00:39:09.660 --> 00:39:11.930 - This is the car. - What are you talking about? 00:39:12.030 --> 00:39:14.419 I told you. White with a white vinyl top. 00:39:14.969 --> 00:39:17.630 - But the guy said... - I don't care what the guy said. 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:21.545 - I thought it was wide. - I don't want this. 00:39:21.545 --> 00:39:23.150 I'm not gonna pay for it. 00:39:23.340 --> 00:39:25.600 Here, come here. 00:39:25.650 --> 00:39:27.960 - You stay over there. - Come here for one minute. 00:39:28.210 --> 00:39:30.110 - Don't fuck around. - Why would I... 00:39:31.235 --> 00:39:32.836 Stay there! Dad! 00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:35.790 - Tell him to stay there. - What is that? 00:39:35.830 --> 00:39:37.030 This is our car. 00:39:54.200 --> 00:39:57.010 Hey, Mr Pesce. How you doing? 00:39:57.300 --> 00:39:58.540 Everything all right? 00:40:09.300 --> 00:40:11.159 - Punk. - Pop. 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.367 You know a man is judged by the company that keeps, Frankie. 00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:18.855 What about you, Pop? 00:40:18.855 --> 00:40:20.800 Out here keeping company with the crickets. 00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:23.427 You're a smart ass, huh? 00:40:23.577 --> 00:40:26.812 I'm still very capable of smacking the shit out of you if I have to. 00:40:27.660 --> 00:40:29.170 Today you're watching the door. 00:40:29.170 --> 00:40:30.870 What are you going to do tomorrow? 00:40:30.870 --> 00:40:32.430 You're gonna hold some guy down 00:40:32.430 --> 00:40:34.740 while he hits him over the head with a tire iron? 00:40:34.740 --> 00:40:36.495 Dad, it's just temporary, all right? 00:40:36.495 --> 00:40:38.912 I'm saving the money up so I can do bigger things. 00:40:38.912 --> 00:40:39.862 Like what? 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:41.351 I don't know. 00:40:41.645 --> 00:40:43.690 Frankie, this is it. This is all there is. 00:40:44.940 --> 00:40:47.060 You get a job, you make a living. 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.346 You meet a girl, you get married and you have kids. 00:40:50.700 --> 00:40:52.136 There's nothing else to it. 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.624 Pop, this can't be it, right? 00:40:54.624 --> 00:40:56.747 What if I want to do something else? 00:40:56.747 --> 00:40:57.910 Like what? 00:40:57.960 --> 00:40:59.770 I don't know. Will you quit asking me? 00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:02.100 Look, I'm miserable, you're miserable. 00:41:02.530 --> 00:41:05.110 You're miserable. You know what you gotta do? 00:41:05.160 --> 00:41:07.306 You got to find yourself a hobby. 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:09.910 That's right. You got to get something 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:12.269 that's going to give you pleasure. 00:41:12.784 --> 00:41:14.414 Like me and my lawn. 00:41:14.806 --> 00:41:16.406 Get out! 00:41:16.649 --> 00:41:19.302 Stop! Don't hit the cat! 00:41:20.700 --> 00:41:23.287 The heat from his body is burning a hole in my lawn. 00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:29.534 Isn't it a big difference? 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:31.994 What? 00:41:32.274 --> 00:41:34.263 The bluegrass of Kentucky. 00:41:35.100 --> 00:41:37.479 I don't notice any difference. 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.600 You don't notice no difference? 00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:41.054 No. 00:41:41.054 --> 00:41:43.306 That's because you don't have the eye, Frankie. 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:44.595 The eye. 00:41:46.200 --> 00:41:47.266 What eye? 00:41:47.435 --> 00:41:48.810 The eye! The eye! 00:41:49.675 --> 00:41:50.675 What eye! 00:41:51.110 --> 00:41:53.820 If you had the eye, you'd know what I was talking about. 00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:57.670 But obviously you don't have the eye, Frankie. 00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:59.335 Well, Pop. I wish I had this eye, 00:41:59.335 --> 00:42:02.360 because then I would know what the hell you were talking about. 00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:06.130 Well, I'm just uh listening to a different drum, Frank. 00:42:06.180 --> 00:42:08.049 So now there are drums. 00:42:08.049 --> 00:42:10.020 There's a lot of shit happening out here. 00:42:10.020 --> 00:42:11.830 That's right. 00:42:11.830 --> 00:42:13.760 Lottery comes to New York. Take a look. 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.858 You and 20 million other people seen that today, all right? 00:42:16.858 --> 00:42:18.573 And there's always hope, kid. 00:42:18.573 --> 00:42:20.950 Not for your Pop, there's no hope. 00:42:21.475 --> 00:42:22.765 Bullshit! 00:42:26.040 --> 00:42:26.893 Hi, Mom. 00:42:26.931 --> 00:42:27.931 How you doing? 00:42:28.120 --> 00:42:29.044 Perfect timing. 00:42:29.044 --> 00:42:31.202 Get out of there! What's the matter with you? 00:42:31.202 --> 00:42:32.230 Go wash your hands. 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:33.995 You come in bringing them germs 00:42:34.005 --> 00:42:36.230 and sticking them in the sauce like that! 00:42:36.250 --> 00:42:39.840 Hey! Out of my chair, Bob. 00:42:39.900 --> 00:42:40.898 Just get out. 00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:46.930 I have to go to work. I have a job. 00:42:46.980 --> 00:42:48.315 Not like some people I know. 00:42:48.315 --> 00:42:50.910 And what are you doing sticking at this slumber party? 00:42:50.910 --> 00:42:52.595 Where is your father? 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:57.430 He's outside with the Bluegrass of Kentucky and the eye and the drums... 00:42:57.510 --> 00:42:59.230 Don't give him a hard time. 00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.225 Why not? 00:43:01.560 --> 00:43:03.086 He got laid off from work. 00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:05.755 He got laid off? 00:43:05.825 --> 00:43:06.690 You heard her. 00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:09.198 Would you go call your father, huh? 00:43:10.560 --> 00:43:12.780 Get off your ass and go call your father! 00:43:12.805 --> 00:43:13.745 All right! I'll go. 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:15.837 That was serious. 00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:18.035 We were just getting by as it was 00:43:18.035 --> 00:43:20.360 and I knew that we were in for some hard times. 00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:24.056 At the same time the neighborhood was going nuts. 00:43:24.136 --> 00:43:25.932 Everybody had lottery fever. 00:43:26.509 --> 00:43:29.320 Me? I wouldn't have anything to do with it. 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:33.833 Rocky, what are you gonna do with your millions? 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:36.865 You don't play, you don't win, Frank. 00:43:36.865 --> 00:43:38.147 So that's original. 00:43:38.147 --> 00:43:40.969 You'll turn into a freaking Rockefeller, Rocky. 00:43:42.989 --> 00:43:44.850 My father could have probably supported 00:43:44.850 --> 00:43:47.519 the New York State Lottery Commission all by himself. 00:43:47.929 --> 00:43:49.668 He was going for the big one. 00:43:50.778 --> 00:43:53.290 It ain't right, but I've been collecting unemployment checks 00:43:53.290 --> 00:43:54.475 while I was working at the club. 00:43:54.475 --> 00:43:55.830 And it was a lucky thing too 00:43:55.830 --> 00:43:58.009 because I picked Labor Day to cash that check. 00:43:58.009 --> 00:43:59.560 The banks were all closed. 00:43:59.570 --> 00:44:02.315 Earf's pawn shop was the only joint on the block that was open. 00:44:02.315 --> 00:44:03.972 Hey, Frankie! 00:44:04.232 --> 00:44:07.210 - How are you? Everything okay? - Yeah. 00:44:07.260 --> 00:44:09.850 How's the family? Your mother, your father, 00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:11.624 your beautiful sister Mary... 00:44:11.624 --> 00:44:15.670 Everybody's fine. Look. I gotta cash a check, all right? 00:44:15.720 --> 00:44:16.830 You got an ID? 00:44:19.140 --> 00:44:19.849 Earf! 00:44:20.339 --> 00:44:23.184 How's my sister? How's my mum? You're asking me for ID? 00:44:23.184 --> 00:44:25.940 Frank, I'm sorry, that's the way it is. 00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:29.192 You got to have two forms of identification. 00:44:29.192 --> 00:44:31.092 Earf, you know who my father is, right? 00:44:31.092 --> 00:44:33.410 We don't want to have a misunderstanding, do we? 00:44:33.740 --> 00:44:38.625 Well, all right. For you Frankie I'll make an exception. 00:44:39.180 --> 00:44:40.295 Thanks, Earf. 00:44:40.295 --> 00:44:43.784 But you're gonna buy something, a minimum of 10 bucks. 00:44:44.374 --> 00:44:46.690 - I gotta buy something. - Yeah. 00:44:46.740 --> 00:44:48.490 What am I gonna buy in this place? 00:44:48.630 --> 00:44:49.670 A fucking ukulele? 00:44:49.670 --> 00:44:53.789 I'm not Chase Manhattan, Frank. Minimum of 10 bucks. 00:44:53.839 --> 00:44:56.404 This looks like the same shit you had here... 00:44:56.404 --> 00:44:57.787 All right, all right, all right... 00:44:57.787 --> 00:45:01.390 Give me give me that piece of shit binoculars... 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:02.296 Hey. 00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:05.070 Beautiful. 00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:12.854 - Nine bucks. - Oh, come on. 00:45:12.854 --> 00:45:14.352 I gotta charge you ten. 00:45:14.810 --> 00:45:15.520 No, no. 00:45:17.460 --> 00:45:19.170 Make up the difference, all right? 00:45:19.740 --> 00:45:21.770 Give me one of them lottery tickets. 00:45:27.550 --> 00:45:29.419 Everything is a chore with this guy. 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:32.600 You've got a beautiful pair of binoculars. 00:45:33.100 --> 00:45:34.270 They're beautiful. 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:39.849 All right. One, two, three, four, five... 00:45:40.069 --> 00:45:41.080 Come on. 00:45:45.180 --> 00:45:46.515 Don't forget the binoculars. 00:45:46.554 --> 00:45:48.152 We're gonna forget the binoculars 00:45:48.152 --> 00:45:52.160 It cost me nine bucks. 00:45:53.170 --> 00:45:54.280 And that was it. 00:45:54.780 --> 00:45:56.665 I thought it was such a waste of money 00:45:56.665 --> 00:45:59.156 I never even told my father that I bought it. 00:46:03.678 --> 00:46:04.938 And then it happened. 00:46:05.520 --> 00:46:08.379 I was on a subway sometime in November. 00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:26.679 Shit! 00:46:28.260 --> 00:46:31.342 I don't believe it. I don't believe it! 00:46:32.099 --> 00:46:33.910 I'm a finalist in the lottery! 00:46:33.910 --> 00:46:35.899 Right here, I'm a finalist in the lottery! 00:46:35.899 --> 00:46:37.510 Yeah, I'm not kidding. 00:46:37.560 --> 00:46:39.260 Wait, wait, wait, wait. 00:46:39.260 --> 00:46:40.829 Look at this. Here's the ticket! 00:46:40.829 --> 00:46:43.502 I got a shot of 6.2 million dollars! 00:46:54.531 --> 00:46:56.271 Pa! Ma! You know what happened? 00:46:58.575 --> 00:47:00.255 I'm a finalist in the lottery! 00:47:00.255 --> 00:47:01.615 - Are you serious? - Yes! 00:47:05.590 --> 00:47:06.521 Frankie. 00:47:09.560 --> 00:47:11.370 They laughed at Christopher Columbus, 00:47:11.410 --> 00:47:15.530 they laughed at the Wright Brothers they laughed at Einstein, Mama, 00:47:15.662 --> 00:47:18.680 but nobody's gonna laugh at me after Christmas Eve, 00:47:18.730 --> 00:47:21.680 because I'm a finalist in a New York State Lottery 00:47:21.690 --> 00:47:24.250 and I'm gonna win 6.2 million dollars, 00:47:24.300 --> 00:47:26.888 and I'm gonna spend it. 00:47:27.720 --> 00:47:31.205 I'm gonna buy you a beautiful home with a big lawn for me. 00:47:31.275 --> 00:47:35.499 And Frankie, don't worry about a career. Not that you're ever gonna get one anyway. 00:47:35.499 --> 00:47:36.410 Read it. 00:47:37.410 --> 00:47:38.800 Who's on the phone? 00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:44.127 Madeline, I'm gonna buy you a washer, a dryer, 00:47:44.127 --> 00:47:46.248 every appliance you ever hoped for. 00:47:46.248 --> 00:47:47.131 Daddy. 00:47:48.420 --> 00:47:49.799 She must have fainted. 00:47:50.359 --> 00:47:53.049 Celebration! Wine! 00:47:53.099 --> 00:47:55.310 And what about you, detective Pesce? 00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:57.579 What can I buy for you? 00:47:58.259 --> 00:48:00.549 Now, son, I'm busy spending my money over here. 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:02.540 Just listen to Frankie. 00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:05.220 Yes, my baby boy, who bears my name. 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.390 - That's exactly the point. - Yes. So? 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:09.919 We both got the same name. 00:48:14.860 --> 00:48:16.780 What are you trying to tell me, Frankie? 00:48:17.220 --> 00:48:20.559 - Pop, it's my ticket. - Come on. What do you mean, your ticket? 00:48:20.671 --> 00:48:21.580 Oh, I know, I know. 00:48:21.580 --> 00:48:24.010 You don't think I'm gonna share with you, right? 00:48:24.010 --> 00:48:25.530 Is that it, you greedy bastard? 00:48:25.530 --> 00:48:28.969 It's my ticket! I'll buy you whatever the hell you want. 00:48:28.979 --> 00:48:31.444 You're right, kid. You are absolutely right. 00:48:31.444 --> 00:48:32.700 For a minute there 00:48:32.700 --> 00:48:34.620 you had me going. 00:48:34.670 --> 00:48:35.448 Salud! 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:49.350 What's going on? 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:52.210 Honey, 00:48:52.260 --> 00:48:54.150 it's Frankie's ticket. 00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:55.780 Yeah, Pop. 00:48:57.390 --> 00:48:59.180 I went over to Earf's to cash a check 00:48:59.180 --> 00:49:00.615 because the banks were closed 00:49:00.615 --> 00:49:02.090 and he made me buy something. 00:49:02.200 --> 00:49:04.749 So I bought binoculars and a ticket. 00:49:04.909 --> 00:49:07.072 You're telling me you bought one ticket. 00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:11.212 I got 8 million tickets 00:49:11.819 --> 00:49:13.935 sitting in a shoe box upstairs 00:49:13.935 --> 00:49:16.040 and you bought one ticket. 00:49:16.740 --> 00:49:20.615 Well, Pop. You know I'm lucky. 00:49:38.277 --> 00:49:39.960 Can I see the ticket, Frankie? 00:50:01.770 --> 00:50:04.259 You're gonna win this miserable fucking thing. 00:50:04.436 --> 00:50:06.730 You know that, don't you? 00:50:06.780 --> 00:50:09.631 Yeah, Pop, you know what's mine is yours. 00:50:10.419 --> 00:50:12.962 Yeah, likewise, Frank. I got nothing. 00:50:24.980 --> 00:50:27.985 Suddenly everyone was my best friend. 00:50:45.862 --> 00:50:47.222 He's a lucky bastard. 00:50:47.491 --> 00:50:50.111 Frankie Pesce is a finalist in the lottery. 00:50:50.250 --> 00:50:52.200 It was really ridiculous. 00:50:52.358 --> 00:50:53.563 I was one of 50 finalists 00:50:53.563 --> 00:50:56.230 and everybody was acting like I'd already won the thing. 00:50:56.280 --> 00:50:58.944 Would you bet on a horse that was going off 50-1? 00:50:59.094 --> 00:50:59.899 I wouldn't. 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:01.849 Friends were betting on me 00:51:02.779 --> 00:51:05.301 as if they were convinced that I could do anything. 00:51:05.520 --> 00:51:07.469 So he took us down to Mulberry Street 00:51:07.479 --> 00:51:10.770 to this real big gambling joint to see if I could throw some dice. 00:52:23.740 --> 00:52:27.010 Hey, hey! Ain't that Loui Tucci? 00:52:27.730 --> 00:52:30.755 Go for him, Frankie. Start his own graveyard in Jersey. 00:52:31.410 --> 00:52:34.190 They'll cut your throat and go off for calzone afterwards. 00:52:34.220 --> 00:52:35.830 He don't give a shit, man. 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.043 I got friends too. 00:52:40.370 --> 00:52:42.760 Throw the fucking dice, will you? 00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.619 Come on, will you, jerko? Let's go. 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:09.024 Then it happened. I made history. 00:53:09.024 --> 00:53:11.650 I was about to do something nobody had ever seen. Ever. 00:53:12.510 --> 00:53:13.580 Anywhere. 00:53:28.479 --> 00:53:30.050 Get that fucking kid out of here. 00:53:30.050 --> 00:53:32.684 Give me an axe and I'll chop your fucking hands off. 00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:35.600 He was really upset. 00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:36.741 What are you looking at? 00:53:36.805 --> 00:53:38.910 Do you think this is a fucking joke? 00:53:40.350 --> 00:53:42.309 I'm just playing some dice here. 00:53:42.359 --> 00:53:43.885 Come here, you. 00:53:51.359 --> 00:53:53.888 Say good morning to Vinnie, Dad. 00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:57.065 I think it's a big joke, don't you? 00:53:57.065 --> 00:53:57.796 Why? 00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:01.955 Hanging out with the mob guys, shooting dice... 00:54:01.955 --> 00:54:03.680 What the hell are you talking about? 00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:05.440 You're a legend on Mulberry Street. 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:07.905 Frankie Pesce's kid, the man with the golden arm. 00:54:08.535 --> 00:54:10.990 The golden arm and head up his ass. 00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:12.730 Keep it up and watch what happens. 00:54:12.780 --> 00:54:14.830 Just relax, all right? 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:17.430 I'm having fun, just recreational. 00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:19.330 Recreational, okay. 00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:21.955 Don't get yourself killed before the drawing. 00:54:21.955 --> 00:54:24.182 Then you can do whatever the hell you want. 00:54:24.182 --> 00:54:26.410 Oh, great. Thank you. 00:54:26.460 --> 00:54:28.415 What the hell is that smelling? 00:54:28.415 --> 00:54:30.380 It smells like gym sneakers or something. 00:54:35.940 --> 00:54:36.989 It's our pizza. 00:54:38.819 --> 00:54:41.379 That don't look like no pizza I ever seen, Pop. 00:54:41.489 --> 00:54:43.214 Just shut up and have a slice. 00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:46.464 Did you make that? 00:54:46.595 --> 00:54:48.452 Did I make it? You see your mother here? 00:54:48.452 --> 00:54:49.740 Yeah, I made it. Right? 00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:51.595 And it cost me a dollar to make. 00:54:51.600 --> 00:54:53.782 One dollar. You know the shit you buy? 00:54:54.122 --> 00:54:56.190 Seven bucks. Have a piece. 00:54:56.700 --> 00:54:58.514 Come on. Have a piece. 00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:08.105 The dough's a little hard. 00:55:08.165 --> 00:55:08.927 Oh! 00:55:09.047 --> 00:55:10.588 What's wrong? What's the matter? 00:55:10.738 --> 00:55:12.694 Pop, you get better pizza in Korea. 00:55:13.294 --> 00:55:14.960 Who the hell made that? Michelin? 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:16.979 Put it in the trunk and use it as a spin. 00:55:16.999 --> 00:55:18.459 I'm going back to bed. 00:55:22.110 --> 00:55:25.849 The only member of our family to appreciate my father's pizza was Vinnie. 00:55:26.819 --> 00:55:31.668 My father's not the kind of guy just to sit around the house like a normal person. 00:55:31.788 --> 00:55:33.896 The boredom was driving him crazy, 00:55:34.176 --> 00:55:37.795 and remember the idle mind is the devil's playground. 00:55:38.125 --> 00:55:42.081 And in my father's case it was about to become an amusement park. 00:55:47.900 --> 00:55:48.680 Hey! 00:55:49.380 --> 00:55:51.690 Where the hell are you three going? 00:55:52.200 --> 00:55:53.259 We're going bowling. 00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:56.029 That's right, bowling. 00:55:57.900 --> 00:55:59.010 Bowling, huh? 00:56:00.420 --> 00:56:03.074 You haven't been bowling since Christ left Chicago. 00:56:03.494 --> 00:56:06.340 Maybe we'll go bowling and maybe we won't go bowling. 00:56:06.390 --> 00:56:07.829 Maybe we'll do something else, 00:56:07.829 --> 00:56:09.009 but I figured 00:56:09.059 --> 00:56:12.320 it would be nice for a father to spend the evening with his sons. 00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:14.229 You got a problem with that? 00:56:15.059 --> 00:56:16.776 You are so full of shit! 00:56:21.240 --> 00:56:22.320 I don't know. 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:27.264 With dad being out of work, 00:56:27.264 --> 00:56:29.620 our money situation was getting worse and worse. 00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.290 The three of us decided to get rid of the T-bird for the insurance money. 00:56:36.780 --> 00:56:37.980 Frankie, Frankie. 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:40.155 - Wait a minute. - What? 00:56:40.660 --> 00:56:42.580 - Stand over there. - What are you talking about? 00:56:42.684 --> 00:56:44.500 Stand over there, turn around. 00:56:48.359 --> 00:56:49.450 Turn around. 00:57:09.780 --> 00:57:10.910 Let's go home. 00:57:16.990 --> 00:57:19.509 They found the car completely untouched, 00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:21.580 except for the damage my father had done, 00:57:21.580 --> 00:57:23.769 just where we left it in the Bronx. 00:57:23.819 --> 00:57:26.194 There were times when you don't want to be lucky, 00:57:26.194 --> 00:57:29.296 but that lucky star keeps on shining no matter what. 00:57:30.817 --> 00:57:32.267 Bowling, huh? 00:57:38.289 --> 00:57:42.059 To make matters worse we had a 500 deductible on the car 00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:46.040 and a broken windshield costs 380 bucks and 40 for the tow, 00:57:46.143 --> 00:57:48.130 so now we had to pay 420 bucks 00:57:48.180 --> 00:57:50.560 just to get the car back in the shape that it was. 00:57:53.090 --> 00:57:56.580 We don't have $420. 00:57:56.667 --> 00:58:00.240 Insurance companies are not in business to be taken by idiots, 00:58:00.240 --> 00:58:01.625 stupid idiots like you guys. 00:58:01.625 --> 00:58:02.830 - Oh, yeah? Idiots? 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:06.156 Well the car really did get stolen in the bowling alley. 00:58:06.156 --> 00:58:08.262 And I don't want to get into it again. 00:58:08.262 --> 00:58:10.461 Yeah, like I'm five-foot towing blonde. 00:58:12.300 --> 00:58:14.110 You know why the car can't get stolen? 00:58:14.110 --> 00:58:15.445 Because it's under his name. 00:58:15.445 --> 00:58:16.852 And you know his lucky curse. 00:58:16.852 --> 00:58:17.630 They'll find it 00:58:17.630 --> 00:58:18.779 no matter where we hide it. 00:58:18.779 --> 00:58:20.070 This is all your fault. 00:58:20.224 --> 00:58:22.090 You know what? You're full of shit. 00:58:22.100 --> 00:58:24.399 - I'm full of shit? - Yeah, you're full of shit. 00:58:24.399 --> 00:58:25.450 Where you going now? 00:58:25.450 --> 00:58:27.660 I got something I gotta do, all right? 00:58:38.620 --> 00:58:41.598 I paid my cousin Leo a visit in Budd Lake, New Jersey, 00:58:41.598 --> 00:58:42.940 and together we figured out 00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:44.450 a way to dump the car. 00:58:49.820 --> 00:58:51.780 Hey, you know this stuff really works? 00:59:03.160 --> 00:59:04.160 Get in there! 00:59:05.460 --> 00:59:08.365 30 days later we were told to go down to the insurance company 00:59:08.365 --> 00:59:09.490 and pick up the check. 00:59:09.540 --> 00:59:12.165 The month had come and gone and no one had found a car, 00:59:12.165 --> 00:59:13.808 as I was sure would be the case. 00:59:19.613 --> 00:59:22.468 Let's not look like three goons going in there. 00:59:22.729 --> 00:59:25.930 We look like a family gonna pick up a check. 00:59:26.380 --> 00:59:28.330 Like a pack of fucking wild dogs. 00:59:28.380 --> 00:59:29.619 That's what we look like. 00:59:29.889 --> 00:59:31.930 I'm going in by myself. You guys wait down. 00:59:31.980 --> 00:59:34.030 Why? You don't want us to come in? 00:59:35.099 --> 00:59:37.051 Frankie, tell him what I said. 00:59:38.339 --> 00:59:39.959 I'm sorry, Mr Pesce, 00:59:39.959 --> 00:59:43.016 but it seems that nobody's found your son's car. 00:59:45.359 --> 00:59:46.709 Ah, that's too bad! 00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:50.100 You know my son Frankie. 00:59:50.940 --> 00:59:52.650 He's been sick for the whole month. 00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:55.330 You know what he says to me? 00:59:56.400 --> 00:59:57.949 He says, 'Daddy, 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:01.532 you know losing my car is like losing my brother.' 01:00:02.520 --> 01:00:03.930 I mean the kid's heartbroken. 01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:07.991 You know I feel terrible about this. 01:00:09.180 --> 01:00:12.610 - Listen. Let me make one more phone... - Oh, no! 01:00:12.660 --> 01:00:14.080 Maybe we'll get lucky. 01:00:22.710 --> 01:00:24.750 Hi, this is Lucy Sills. 01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:27.729 I was wondering if there was anything new 01:00:27.729 --> 01:00:31.394 with case uh... ten two one six nine. 01:00:32.579 --> 01:00:33.410 Thanks. 01:00:33.905 --> 01:00:35.055 They're checking. 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:36.270 Yeah. 01:00:38.579 --> 01:00:39.516 What? 01:00:41.220 --> 01:00:44.595 - Ivory Gold Mist? - Ah, no. Aqua Velva. 01:00:44.970 --> 01:00:48.370 Oh, no. The car is the Ivory Gold missed, 01:00:48.420 --> 01:00:52.051 a Ford Thunderbird license plates My Way. 01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:55.219 Yes, that's it. 01:00:55.619 --> 01:00:56.489 Thank you. 01:00:57.299 --> 01:00:58.260 Thank you. 01:00:58.890 --> 01:01:02.740 It seems that they found your son's car over the weekend in Budd Lake New Jersey. 01:01:03.150 --> 01:01:07.090 Isn't that wonderful? I'm so glad I checked. 01:01:07.140 --> 01:01:10.319 - Budd Lake, New Jersey? - Budd Lake. 01:01:12.939 --> 01:01:15.039 Budd Lake, New Jersey. You fucking crazy. 01:01:15.569 --> 01:01:16.999 They found the car. 01:01:17.099 --> 01:01:19.410 - Where? - In Fucking Lake, New Jersey. 01:01:19.500 --> 01:01:21.769 What a coincidence! We got family there! 01:01:21.829 --> 01:01:23.499 I don't think the insurance company 01:01:23.499 --> 01:01:25.279 is going to put that together to you. 01:01:25.279 --> 01:01:27.790 Did you go with your cousin Leo, that fucking moron? 01:01:27.820 --> 01:01:31.416 Come! Drive the car! 01:01:37.109 --> 01:01:39.329 - Get in the car! - I'm getting in the car! 01:01:40.669 --> 01:01:42.995 So we ended up selling the car to my cousin Leo. 01:01:43.404 --> 01:01:45.479 Two days after the sale it got stolen. 01:01:46.189 --> 01:01:47.919 But that money didn't last long. 01:01:48.420 --> 01:01:50.201 Now we were hitting rock bottom. 01:01:51.540 --> 01:01:52.835 Randy, give me the keys. 01:01:54.180 --> 01:01:55.819 Come on, give me the keys. 01:01:55.839 --> 01:01:56.839 You're gonna go out? 01:01:56.869 --> 01:01:58.129 Come on, give me the keys. 01:01:58.160 --> 01:02:01.632 Come on, come on. I need it. 01:02:01.650 --> 01:02:03.195 - Got any money? - What? 01:02:03.195 --> 01:02:04.480 Money, you got some money? 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:06.040 - I need some money. - Dad, no... 01:02:06.040 --> 01:02:07.829 Frankie, look. I'm way behind here. 01:02:08.579 --> 01:02:09.680 What do you got? 01:02:11.020 --> 01:02:13.294 - I got four hundred dollars. - All right, go get it. 01:02:13.324 --> 01:02:16.383 No! What for? - Okay, I got a feeling tonight. 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:20.470 I got a feeling that I can't lose on a fight tonight. 01:02:20.470 --> 01:02:23.379 Please, come on, you're my partner. We'll be partners. 01:02:23.419 --> 01:02:24.702 Not again, dad. 01:02:24.839 --> 01:02:27.334 Jesus Christ! The first time I asked you for money! 01:02:27.354 --> 01:02:29.069 All right, I'm gonna get the money. 01:02:31.319 --> 01:02:32.213 Come on. 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:34.539 Of course I got him the money. 01:02:35.819 --> 01:02:39.610 Frankie. It's in the blue sock, 01:02:39.660 --> 01:02:41.280 on the left side of the drawer. 01:02:43.799 --> 01:02:46.569 And believe it or not my father actually won on the fight, 01:02:46.569 --> 01:02:50.099 so I went down to the club to stop him before he could do any more damage. 01:02:50.149 --> 01:02:53.890 But Philly said that my father doubled his money, took the 800 bucks, 01:02:53.940 --> 01:02:56.380 put it on a horse, got it up to 1100 01:02:56.390 --> 01:02:58.090 and took off like a bat out of hell 01:02:58.140 --> 01:03:00.249 with Johnny Cake and Joe Numbers 01:03:00.299 --> 01:03:02.629 saying something about going to Yonkers Raceway. 01:03:15.240 --> 01:03:16.520 What are you doing? 01:03:17.520 --> 01:03:18.750 I'm waiting for you. 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:21.419 Is your mother up? 01:03:21.839 --> 01:03:24.570 - Yeah she's so. - Oh, Chris, don't get mad. 01:03:24.640 --> 01:03:25.780 What happened? 01:03:26.520 --> 01:03:27.938 I lost 400. 01:03:29.520 --> 01:03:30.317 Good. 01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:33.190 Good. I was really worried. 01:03:34.200 --> 01:03:35.219 Listen, Pop. 01:03:36.299 --> 01:03:38.614 Why don't you let me hold the rest of the money? 01:03:38.714 --> 01:03:39.940 There's no money, Frank. 01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:42.999 I thought you said you lost 400. 01:03:43.619 --> 01:03:45.765 Right, I lost the 400 bucks. 01:03:47.850 --> 01:03:49.630 You had 1100 when you left the club. 01:03:49.680 --> 01:03:50.747 Yeah I did. 01:03:52.469 --> 01:03:54.059 That means you've got 700 on you. 01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:56.110 I don't have a shit on me now. 01:03:57.359 --> 01:03:59.464 How can you lose 400 out of 1100 01:03:59.494 --> 01:04:01.100 and not have anything on you now? 01:04:01.260 --> 01:04:03.063 I lost the 400 bucks you gave me. 01:04:04.260 --> 01:04:06.444 You lost eleven hundred dollars! 01:04:06.444 --> 01:04:08.952 No, I lost the 400 you gave me. 01:04:09.052 --> 01:04:10.530 Then where is the other 700? 01:04:10.530 --> 01:04:11.328 It's gone. 01:04:12.059 --> 01:04:13.176 You lost it all. 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:14.302 No. 01:04:15.080 --> 01:04:15.972 Yeah. 01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:20.650 - Technically. - Technically. What technically? 01:04:20.700 --> 01:04:23.350 You had 1100 and now you don't have a shit. 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:25.930 That means that you lost eleven hundred. 01:04:25.930 --> 01:04:27.417 I don't count the other seven. 01:04:27.417 --> 01:04:29.038 - You don't count... - No I don't. 01:04:29.038 --> 01:04:30.423 That money ain't real. 01:04:30.423 --> 01:04:33.589 It's no good, it doesn't pay the mortgage the gas, the electric. 01:04:33.650 --> 01:04:36.490 Look, I don't count it because it's their money. 01:04:36.540 --> 01:04:38.769 You see, I gambled with their money. 01:04:38.819 --> 01:04:42.610 I lost your 400, but their money is their money. 01:04:42.660 --> 01:04:46.509 You had their money in your pocket, didn't you? 01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:50.099 Frankie, it's my fucking life! 01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:53.759 What the hell do you want from me? 01:04:54.499 --> 01:04:56.259 What the hell are you worried about? 01:04:56.259 --> 01:04:57.860 You're going to win the lottery. 01:04:57.860 --> 01:05:00.190 and then you can hang out on a street 01:05:00.240 --> 01:05:03.269 and be a jerko for the rest of your life. 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:07.579 How the hell do you know if I'm going to win that lottery? 01:05:08.819 --> 01:05:09.735 And even if I do, 01:05:09.735 --> 01:05:13.430 it's not included in my plans that I'm gonna hang out in some street corner. 01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:16.249 I'm gonna do something with my life. 01:05:16.329 --> 01:05:18.196 - Yeah, like what? - I don't know. 01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:20.640 But I'm going to get a real life. 01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:25.026 And what am I? A fucking cartoon character? 01:05:27.839 --> 01:05:28.856 Oh, shit. 01:05:46.296 --> 01:05:47.296 Frank. 01:05:54.196 --> 01:05:56.416 I'm sorry. 01:05:57.657 --> 01:06:01.282 You listen to me, Frank Pesce. Listen to me good, huh? 01:06:02.835 --> 01:06:04.915 I don't wanna hear that shit. 01:06:05.222 --> 01:06:07.822 Just don't you die on me, you bastard. That's all. 01:06:08.329 --> 01:06:09.560 Not now. 01:06:10.970 --> 01:06:11.970 Relax. 01:06:13.380 --> 01:06:15.280 You're not going nowhere. 01:06:17.300 --> 01:06:18.810 When you get well, 01:06:20.430 --> 01:06:21.840 you're gonna come home. 01:06:22.740 --> 01:06:24.789 I want the house to stink of them, 01:06:24.889 --> 01:06:27.170 them rotten pizzas you've been making. 01:06:28.740 --> 01:06:31.269 I want you to see your son Frankie just 01:06:31.319 --> 01:06:34.029 make something out of his life, Frank. 01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:37.079 You think I'm gonna live... 01:06:37.269 --> 01:06:39.079 I'm not kidding, Frank. 01:06:41.949 --> 01:06:44.912 You and I have made a deal, a promise to each other. 01:06:46.080 --> 01:06:48.195 To live together happily ever after. 01:06:53.099 --> 01:06:54.549 Come here. 01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:55.620 Come here. 01:07:00.660 --> 01:07:01.899 Let's go. 01:07:07.680 --> 01:07:09.230 What did he say, Mum? 01:07:10.740 --> 01:07:12.629 Keep the cat off the lawn. 01:07:18.059 --> 01:07:18.969 Hey, Pop. 01:07:27.359 --> 01:07:28.189 All right? 01:07:42.530 --> 01:07:44.780 He said we ruined his lawn while he was gone. 01:07:44.810 --> 01:07:46.569 That's when I knew he was all right, 01:07:46.579 --> 01:07:48.470 he was back to terrorizing everybody. 01:07:50.220 --> 01:07:52.744 I went for the first available job I could find, 01:07:53.294 --> 01:07:55.629 and I got one over at Sheldon Toys, 01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:56.884 as a sales representative. 01:07:56.894 --> 01:07:57.599 Listen up, 01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:58.920 from Sheldon toy company 01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:02.187 I got the greatest little electric cars you've ever seen. 01:08:02.537 --> 01:08:05.580 These electric cars, they're incredible, the kids are going nuts. 01:08:05.580 --> 01:08:07.040 You should order maybe 20, 30, 01:08:07.040 --> 01:08:09.659 because on the first day, bang... they're out the door. 01:08:09.659 --> 01:08:11.039 I'm serious, I'm not kidding. 01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:12.619 How many would you like? 01:08:23.779 --> 01:08:25.307 It was the best job I'd had yet. 01:08:26.400 --> 01:08:28.895 They even let me order a company car. 01:08:33.719 --> 01:08:35.859 - What's this? - It's my new car. 01:08:35.859 --> 01:08:37.904 Yeah, I know. White with a white vinyl top. 01:08:37.904 --> 01:08:39.207 It's a company car. 01:08:39.207 --> 01:08:40.560 You order a car for yourself 01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:41.704 you get the right color. 01:08:41.704 --> 01:08:43.700 Me and you go partners, you get Ivory Gold, you get a fucking Mist. 01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:45.845 Take it to Budd Lake and show it to your cousin Leo. 01:08:45.845 --> 01:08:48.277 That's the kind you should've chosen the first time. 01:08:48.277 --> 01:08:51.429 This time it won't be on my fucking name the insurance, I'm warning you. 01:08:51.455 --> 01:08:52.270 Hey, Vitto. 01:08:53.040 --> 01:08:54.169 Looks good, though. 01:08:54.960 --> 01:08:56.705 Come here and say that, you fuck. 01:08:56.745 --> 01:08:58.490 I'll give you a looks good. 01:08:58.540 --> 01:08:59.279 Come here. 01:09:02.820 --> 01:09:04.870 Then, about a week ago Jimmy Fratello said 01:09:04.870 --> 01:09:07.464 there was a guy who was real interested in meeting me. 01:09:07.504 --> 01:09:09.096 All Jimmy would tell me was that 01:09:09.111 --> 01:09:11.414 it had something to do with my lottery ticket. 01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:22.438 Hey, Pesce. 01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:29.170 Get in the car. 01:09:29.940 --> 01:09:31.280 I'm coming. 01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:41.062 - You? - Yeah. Why? What's wrong with me? 01:09:41.759 --> 01:09:44.350 The last time you saw me 01:09:44.400 --> 01:09:46.190 it looked like you wanted to kill me. 01:09:46.230 --> 01:09:48.290 Nah. That was just that night. 01:09:48.340 --> 01:09:51.178 A lot of guys get killed because people are in bad moods. 01:09:52.199 --> 01:09:55.059 You're a legend down at Molbery Street, you know that? 01:09:55.199 --> 01:09:57.370 What you did that night with them dice, 01:09:57.420 --> 01:09:59.777 and everything else lucky that's happening to you. 01:10:01.440 --> 01:10:02.903 Got the lottery ticket on you? 01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:05.075 Yeah. Why? 01:10:05.075 --> 01:10:07.053 I might be interested in buying it. 01:10:07.500 --> 01:10:09.830 It ain't for sale, you know? 01:10:10.620 --> 01:10:11.794 For ten thousand? 01:10:12.360 --> 01:10:13.755 You want to give me 10 grand? 01:10:13.755 --> 01:10:15.850 Ain't that what I just said? 01:10:15.900 --> 01:10:19.330 The word is you got a shot at this thing with your luck and all. 01:10:19.380 --> 01:10:21.136 Maybe you do or maybe you don't. 01:10:21.256 --> 01:10:24.032 But if you want to sell it, and do the right thing, kid, 01:10:24.032 --> 01:10:25.689 then keep it in the family. 01:10:25.739 --> 01:10:27.850 Remember I'm with you and you're with me, 01:10:27.900 --> 01:10:30.970 and everybody's with us, capisci? 01:10:31.020 --> 01:10:31.838 Hey! 01:10:32.340 --> 01:10:35.140 Two minutes I know you guys and already I'm in the family. 01:10:36.780 --> 01:10:38.310 You just think about it. 01:10:38.515 --> 01:10:40.430 These things have a way of working out. 01:10:40.860 --> 01:10:42.224 And I'm easy to find. 01:10:44.040 --> 01:10:45.243 I'm hungry? You hungry? 01:10:46.020 --> 01:10:47.865 Yeah, I'm hungry. You're hungry? 01:10:47.865 --> 01:10:50.710 - Absolutely. I'm hungry. - Yeah, me too. I'm really hungry. 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:52.400 Get the fuck out of here. 01:11:05.719 --> 01:11:06.620 Frankie. 01:11:07.320 --> 01:11:10.330 Frankie. Frankie, come on, wake up. Frankie! 01:11:10.380 --> 01:11:12.335 Come on, wake up. 01:11:13.215 --> 01:11:15.365 I really think I nailed it this time. 01:11:16.380 --> 01:11:20.201 Get out of here, Dad. Not this morning. 01:11:22.620 --> 01:11:24.650 Isn't it better what you're doing here? 01:11:25.080 --> 01:11:28.330 Staying at home, away from these mob guys 01:11:28.380 --> 01:11:29.565 and all those hangouts? 01:11:29.605 --> 01:11:30.730 Watch now. 01:11:30.730 --> 01:11:32.300 You're gonna amount to something. 01:11:32.300 --> 01:11:33.660 Keep your nose to the grind, 01:11:33.660 --> 01:11:36.140 so you're going to do better than that cop upstairs. 01:11:37.540 --> 01:11:39.750 I never heard you talk like this before, Pop. 01:11:39.910 --> 01:11:42.640 Sometimes it takes something like this to open your eyes. 01:11:43.140 --> 01:11:45.390 Frankie, tell me. I want to ask you a question. 01:11:45.420 --> 01:11:46.620 When you win the lottery, 01:11:46.620 --> 01:11:48.305 you're not going to use that 01:11:48.305 --> 01:11:50.310 as an excuse to sit on your ass, are you? 01:11:51.780 --> 01:11:53.350 I'll tell you what I want to do. 01:11:53.400 --> 01:11:54.138 What? 01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:55.830 Don't laugh, all right? 01:11:57.179 --> 01:11:58.470 I'm not going up there. 01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:04.390 I think I'm going to go to college. 01:12:04.440 --> 01:12:06.947 How about that? A college graduate in the family. 01:12:07.020 --> 01:12:08.632 If you could be a doctor... 01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:11.140 Why don't you put the cigarette out, huh? 01:12:14.340 --> 01:12:15.484 She worries about me. 01:12:15.514 --> 01:12:18.200 No, not doc. What about a lawyer? You'll be a lawyer. 01:12:18.200 --> 01:12:20.119 Your brother can throw everybody in jail 01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:22.050 and you can get them back in the street. 01:12:22.050 --> 01:12:23.287 Everybody busy. 01:12:24.100 --> 01:12:25.387 It's very funny! 01:12:27.179 --> 01:12:28.844 First he'd have to arrest someone. 01:12:28.894 --> 01:12:30.713 If he can find his gun. 01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:08.089 That's culture. 01:13:09.659 --> 01:13:10.860 I forgot to tell you. 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:13.434 Jimmy Vitello called. 01:13:13.752 --> 01:13:15.182 What'd he want? 01:13:15.350 --> 01:13:18.006 Get down and see it. Don't make him feel bad, all right? 01:13:23.980 --> 01:13:25.320 I'll see you. 01:13:56.159 --> 01:13:59.930 - Get out of here! - How well you can still sing. Real good. 01:14:01.020 --> 01:14:02.379 Can I say something? 01:14:04.320 --> 01:14:05.915 You know I got a bad heart. 01:14:06.745 --> 01:14:08.808 I know you got a bad heart. 01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:12.752 You don't want to break it, do you? 01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:14.947 Oh, Frank. 01:14:15.900 --> 01:14:18.480 - I would never... - Oh wait, wait a minute now... 01:14:20.250 --> 01:14:21.170 Excuse me. 01:14:21.900 --> 01:14:25.510 You're crazy, you know that you're crazy. 01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:27.189 Can I have this dance? 01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:28.580 It would be my pleasure. 01:15:05.130 --> 01:15:07.850 I went to the club to kill some time before the drawing. 01:15:08.040 --> 01:15:10.560 It was here that everything started to fall apart. 01:15:34.080 --> 01:15:35.137 A couple of more hours 01:15:35.137 --> 01:15:37.440 and you're going to find out if you're a millionaire. 01:15:37.490 --> 01:15:39.748 I wish you nothing but the best of luck, 01:15:39.748 --> 01:15:41.828 you lucky son of a bitch. 01:15:41.964 --> 01:15:42.964 Thanks. 01:15:45.917 --> 01:15:48.677 Hey, Richie. Where is my plate? 01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:50.290 It's not hot yet. 01:15:50.340 --> 01:15:52.340 You let me know before I die, huh? 01:15:59.480 --> 01:16:01.530 Where is Frank Pesce? 01:16:05.400 --> 01:16:06.325 Right here. 01:16:07.440 --> 01:16:10.139 Not you, scumbag. Your father. 01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:11.922 Hey hey! 01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:13.735 Not in the club. 01:16:13.835 --> 01:16:15.850 Your old man owes my uncle a lot of money. 01:16:15.850 --> 01:16:17.070 Yeah, I'm talking to you. 01:16:17.070 --> 01:16:18.000 What are you, deaf? 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:19.615 What money are you talking about? 01:16:19.695 --> 01:16:20.690 What money? 01:16:24.450 --> 01:16:26.230 Who do you take us for, jerkos? 01:16:26.230 --> 01:16:27.810 Your father's been ducking us 01:16:27.810 --> 01:16:28.974 for three fucking weeks. 01:16:29.014 --> 01:16:30.281 Not here, not in the club. 01:16:30.281 --> 01:16:32.409 You're fucking with him, you're fucking with me. 01:16:32.409 --> 01:16:34.300 You don't have anything to do with this, Jimmy. 01:16:34.320 --> 01:16:36.370 Bullshit! You know why we're here, Philly. 01:16:36.410 --> 01:16:38.730 What do you guys want to do? Start a war over this? 01:16:39.890 --> 01:16:43.270 You come in my club at Christmas Eve and you start this shit? 01:16:43.320 --> 01:16:44.554 Get out of here! 01:16:44.699 --> 01:16:46.394 We'll come to your house tonight. 01:16:46.424 --> 01:16:47.797 We're gonna give your father 01:16:47.797 --> 01:16:49.650 a Christmas present he'll never forget. 01:16:49.860 --> 01:16:52.139 Fuck out of my club now. 01:16:55.120 --> 01:16:57.010 Before I cut your freaking nuts off 01:16:57.060 --> 01:16:58.639 and have them with my calamar. 01:16:59.219 --> 01:17:01.835 What are you looking at, you potato nose? Sucker! 01:17:02.580 --> 01:17:04.365 Call me a fat bug, huh? 01:17:04.365 --> 01:17:06.120 Guys, go sit down, have fun. 01:17:06.659 --> 01:17:08.864 It's Christmas Eve. Sing a song. 01:17:10.020 --> 01:17:11.619 Do you know anything about this? 01:17:12.719 --> 01:17:15.550 Your old man's into Tucci for 10 grand. 01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:16.545 10 grand! 01:17:16.645 --> 01:17:18.601 And he's three weeks behind all right. 01:17:20.040 --> 01:17:21.970 What does he have in his fucking mind? 01:17:22.560 --> 01:17:24.190 How can he be three weeks behind? 01:17:24.500 --> 01:17:27.315 Hey, I don't sleep with your father. How the hell do I know? 01:17:27.315 --> 01:17:30.250 He's got a mortgage, he's got bills, he's losing his ass here. 01:17:30.790 --> 01:17:32.380 I don't know, talk to your old man. 01:17:33.420 --> 01:17:34.725 Phil, you got to help me. 01:17:34.735 --> 01:17:36.852 I ain't getting freaking involved in this. 01:17:37.272 --> 01:17:38.751 I'll kill that son of a bitch. 01:17:38.751 --> 01:17:39.550 Jimmy come on. 01:17:39.580 --> 01:17:41.010 You gotta help me, all right? 01:17:41.040 --> 01:17:41.940 I can't, Frank. 01:17:42.030 --> 01:17:42.920 Why not? 01:17:43.010 --> 01:17:44.230 I can't, man! 01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:50.770 Forget it. All right. 01:17:50.820 --> 01:17:52.549 Frankie, Frankie, Frankie... 01:17:59.349 --> 01:18:00.130 Fuck! 01:18:25.194 --> 01:18:28.204 Oh, thank God, Frankie. What happened to you? 01:18:28.819 --> 01:18:31.354 We have an hour and a half to get to the Garden. 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:34.568 I was scared stiff, I thought you was hurt or something. 01:18:34.959 --> 01:18:36.330 I'm at least fine, Ma. 01:18:37.140 --> 01:18:37.980 Where's Dad? 01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:40.060 He's upstairs getting dressed. 01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:42.098 Something wrong? 01:18:43.260 --> 01:18:44.020 No. 01:18:44.400 --> 01:18:46.090 Look. I've been thinking... 01:18:48.010 --> 01:18:49.960 I think I should go to the drawing alone. 01:18:49.980 --> 01:18:52.750 - What? - Are you crazy? Dad'll go nuts. 01:18:53.460 --> 01:18:56.270 Frankie, we've been looking forward to tonight. 01:18:56.270 --> 01:18:57.420 I know, Mom. 01:18:57.420 --> 01:18:59.469 I bought a new dress, for Christ's sake. 01:18:59.940 --> 01:19:02.448 Frankie, what is wrong? 01:19:02.528 --> 01:19:04.370 No, Mom. I told you everything's okay. 01:19:04.980 --> 01:19:06.930 All right? I just been thinking about it, 01:19:06.930 --> 01:19:09.090 and I think I should go to the drawing alone. 01:19:09.110 --> 01:19:10.135 That's it, all right? 01:19:10.150 --> 01:19:11.948 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 01:19:11.998 --> 01:19:14.520 Are you gonna screw it up? 01:19:14.560 --> 01:19:16.899 - Shut the fuck up. - Don't tell me to shut up! 01:19:18.299 --> 01:19:20.708 You guys gonna stop? What's going on? 01:19:21.300 --> 01:19:23.130 Frankie don't want us to go with him. 01:19:24.659 --> 01:19:25.982 You don't want us to go? 01:19:26.280 --> 01:19:27.545 Just a thought I had, Pop. 01:19:27.565 --> 01:19:28.710 Well it's a bad thought. 01:19:28.710 --> 01:19:30.109 Get it out of your head and let's go. 01:19:30.109 --> 01:19:30.979 It's getting late. 01:19:30.979 --> 01:19:31.950 No, Pop. Forget about it. 01:19:31.950 --> 01:19:32.815 I'm going by myself 01:19:32.815 --> 01:19:33.660 Come on, Frankie. 01:19:34.380 --> 01:19:38.169 What is it? We're putting too much pressure on you, am I right? 01:19:38.219 --> 01:19:41.004 You're afraid if you don't win we're going to be disappointed... 01:19:41.004 --> 01:19:42.006 Forget that shit. 01:19:42.006 --> 01:19:43.749 Let's just go and enjoy ourselves. 01:19:43.749 --> 01:19:45.117 Whatever happens happens. 01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:47.270 Pop, this is what's gonna happen. 01:19:47.580 --> 01:19:49.860 I'm going up to my room, I'm getting my ticket, 01:19:49.940 --> 01:19:51.666 and I'm going by myself. 01:19:51.810 --> 01:19:53.207 Please get out of my way. 01:19:54.469 --> 01:19:55.794 What the hell is wrong with you? 01:19:55.794 --> 01:19:57.999 What are you doing? You know what this means to us. 01:19:58.079 --> 01:20:00.070 It is most important moment of our lives, 01:20:00.070 --> 01:20:00.935 for Christ's sake. 01:20:00.935 --> 01:20:02.602 No, Pop. It's not your moment. 01:20:03.060 --> 01:20:04.114 It's my moment. 01:20:04.424 --> 01:20:06.018 You leave this house without us, 01:20:06.357 --> 01:20:08.068 win or lose, don't come back. 01:20:09.120 --> 01:20:12.000 If you set an example, I stand a good chance to lose them. 01:20:12.540 --> 01:20:14.010 What the fuck did you say? 01:20:15.935 --> 01:20:17.835 Are you calling me a loser? 01:20:19.320 --> 01:20:21.490 - I'm not a loser. - Have it your way, Dad... 01:20:21.540 --> 01:20:23.530 I'm not a loser! 01:20:23.580 --> 01:20:24.905 All right, you're a winner. 01:20:24.923 --> 01:20:26.428 Is that what you want to hear? 01:20:26.428 --> 01:20:27.379 You're a winner? 01:20:27.379 --> 01:20:29.714 What the hell did you do that was so great, huh? 01:20:29.764 --> 01:20:31.930 Except gamble away everything you ever owned, 01:20:31.980 --> 01:20:33.699 including your own fucking business. 01:20:33.779 --> 01:20:34.802 I stayed. 01:20:36.179 --> 01:20:37.331 That's what I did. 01:20:38.400 --> 01:20:39.905 I stayed for 35 years. 01:20:40.035 --> 01:20:43.147 I stayed and raised the family for 35 years. 01:20:43.347 --> 01:20:47.572 I did anything I had to do to keep a roof over our heads. 01:20:47.632 --> 01:20:49.528 That's what the fuck I did. 01:20:50.940 --> 01:20:52.140 You stayed, huh? 01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:54.170 Big fucking deal! 01:20:54.530 --> 01:20:56.895 You stayed, that's what you're supposed to do. 01:20:57.125 --> 01:21:00.669 It'd be better if you left them and put up with your shit the whole life. 01:21:00.719 --> 01:21:02.620 You squashed every dream that I ever had! 01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:05.555 It's not bad if you pissed your own dreams against the fucking wall. 01:21:05.555 --> 01:21:06.802 You took me down with you. 01:21:06.822 --> 01:21:09.181 You don't know a shit about my dreams. 01:21:09.371 --> 01:21:12.098 Not a fucking thing about my dreams. 01:21:12.360 --> 01:21:14.397 If you think I gambled my business away, 01:21:14.447 --> 01:21:16.938 you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. 01:21:17.268 --> 01:21:21.289 I loved my business, it was the only thing that I owned. 01:21:22.140 --> 01:21:23.585 I didn't gamble it away. 01:21:23.715 --> 01:21:25.607 They took it away. 01:21:27.179 --> 01:21:29.220 That's your fucking big explanation? 01:21:31.060 --> 01:21:32.780 It's the same old shit, Dad. 01:21:33.900 --> 01:21:35.145 You know something, son? 01:21:36.900 --> 01:21:39.696 We were doing pretty damn good until you came along. 01:21:40.860 --> 01:21:42.278 You know? I didn't want you. 01:21:43.260 --> 01:21:44.363 Your mother did. 01:21:45.420 --> 01:21:50.478 And she nearly died having you, you sorry son of a bitch. 01:21:51.179 --> 01:21:54.759 And I borrowed the money to keep you and your mother alive. 01:21:57.300 --> 01:22:01.570 On my fucking knees, and I begged Louie Tucci 01:22:01.660 --> 01:22:04.725 to give me the money to pay off the hospital bills. 01:22:05.315 --> 01:22:11.774 And when I couldn't pay it back he took control of my company and my life. 01:22:13.340 --> 01:22:16.968 You get this straight, you ungrateful son of a bitch. 01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:20.760 I am not a loser! 01:22:21.950 --> 01:22:24.050 Get your fucking hands off me. 01:22:24.420 --> 01:22:25.835 I'm not a loser. 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:30.550 I'm not a loser. 01:22:31.380 --> 01:22:32.302 Frankie. 01:22:34.980 --> 01:22:38.539 I am not a fucking loser! 01:22:43.220 --> 01:22:44.110 Jerk! 01:23:25.425 --> 01:23:26.595 What do you want? 01:23:26.622 --> 01:23:28.352 I'm looking for Loui Tucci. Do you know where he is? 01:23:28.381 --> 01:23:29.381 No, he ain't here. 01:23:29.420 --> 01:23:30.420 Who the hell are you? 01:23:30.580 --> 01:23:32.580 I work for him. Do you want to see my mate? 01:23:32.775 --> 01:23:34.800 I looked all Times Square round. Where the hell is he? 01:23:34.820 --> 01:23:37.289 Who the hell are you? Come over here. 01:23:37.739 --> 01:23:39.669 Look. My name is Frank Pesce, all right? 01:23:39.669 --> 01:23:42.022 Tucci wants to buy a lottery ticket that I have. 01:23:42.022 --> 01:23:43.976 A couple weeks ago he offered me 10 grand. 01:23:43.976 --> 01:23:45.499 I know all about it. Hurry up. 01:23:45.529 --> 01:23:46.780 I'm freezing my balls off. 01:23:46.990 --> 01:23:48.430 I want to exchange the ticket 01:23:48.430 --> 01:23:49.810 for what my father owes him. 01:23:49.810 --> 01:23:53.872 But he's gotta promise me that he won't hurt him. 01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:00.621 All right, you wait here. You wait right here. 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:31.209 Sounds fair. 01:24:32.100 --> 01:24:33.425 You got the ticket on you? 01:24:35.590 --> 01:24:36.482 Yeah, I got it. 01:24:37.140 --> 01:24:38.251 Let's have it. 01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:44.411 Buon Natale, kid. 01:25:13.269 --> 01:25:14.319 So that's that. 01:25:16.710 --> 01:25:21.270 Tucci is a very happy guy tonight because he owns 6.2 million bucks. 01:25:25.130 --> 01:25:26.540 I saved my father. 01:25:28.620 --> 01:25:29.430 Hey. 01:25:30.540 --> 01:25:33.040 I had to do what I had to do, you know what I mean? 01:25:37.440 --> 01:25:38.975 Then I went down to the Garden, 01:25:39.235 --> 01:25:40.589 checked the results... 01:25:43.080 --> 01:25:44.300 Lucky me, huh? 01:25:47.820 --> 01:25:49.019 The rest you know. 01:25:49.980 --> 01:25:52.089 I went crazy down at the church. 01:25:52.179 --> 01:25:54.620 You guys picked me up and you brought me here. 01:25:57.440 --> 01:25:59.737 Do what you want with me. 01:26:02.039 --> 01:26:05.270 I just want to go home and make sure that my father's all right. 01:26:08.580 --> 01:26:09.881 Go on home, boy. 01:26:12.110 --> 01:26:13.820 Let's forget it ever happened. 01:26:14.820 --> 01:26:16.396 - Tolen. - Yes, sir. 01:26:16.860 --> 01:26:20.280 Give him a hand. Take him home, anything else he needs. 01:26:21.810 --> 01:26:23.270 Thanks, guys. 01:26:26.040 --> 01:26:26.890 Frank. 01:26:28.020 --> 01:26:29.421 You know, mamaluke. 01:26:31.020 --> 01:26:33.531 Thanks, sargeant. God bless you, father. 01:27:10.139 --> 01:27:12.220 Hey, Frank. Do you want us to walk you up? 01:27:12.240 --> 01:27:13.380 No, I'll be all right. 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:16.760 Hey, Frank. 01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:18.509 Merry Christmas. 01:27:19.620 --> 01:27:20.580 Thank you. 01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:17.466 Hey, Frankie. Congratulations. 01:28:18.162 --> 01:28:19.702 We saw the show on TV! 01:28:20.362 --> 01:28:23.252 Here's my daughter Sheila. She's dying to meet you, Frankie. 01:28:23.721 --> 01:28:25.581 It is so great, Frankie. 01:28:26.710 --> 01:28:28.250 God bless you, Frankie. 01:28:30.139 --> 01:28:32.889 Mom, we got problems. I gotta talk to Dad. 01:28:32.929 --> 01:28:35.406 - Where is he? - He's in the kitchen, making a pizza. 01:28:35.406 --> 01:28:36.844 Come on, we're having a party. 01:28:36.854 --> 01:28:37.700 Everybody's here. 01:29:35.670 --> 01:29:37.010 Congratulations, son. 01:29:39.239 --> 01:29:42.900 All right, excuse me, excuse me. 01:29:45.510 --> 01:29:47.260 What the hell are you doing here? 01:29:48.148 --> 01:29:50.479 I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. 01:29:50.479 --> 01:29:51.910 Excuse me, excuse me. 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:55.497 - Can I say something here, Louie? - Yeah. 01:29:55.580 --> 01:29:58.329 I want everybody to hear this, Tucci. 01:29:59.760 --> 01:30:02.000 I can't borrow money off you anymore. 01:30:02.340 --> 01:30:03.341 You wanna know why? 01:30:03.425 --> 01:30:05.490 - Yeah. - My son Frankie's a millionaire. 01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:08.260 And he's choosy who I borrow money from. 01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:12.730 Frank, you're not gonna ruin my moment. 01:30:12.780 --> 01:30:14.950 I've been waiting my whole life for this. 01:30:15.780 --> 01:30:17.330 I'd like to say something. 01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:20.646 I said some bad things 01:30:21.940 --> 01:30:23.610 to my son Frankie earlier tonight. 01:30:24.480 --> 01:30:26.115 Things that I'm sorry I said. 01:30:27.300 --> 01:30:29.356 Me and my kid were big dreamers. 01:30:30.780 --> 01:30:32.419 But my problem is that 01:30:33.120 --> 01:30:34.929 most of my dreams didn't work out. 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:38.479 And I think I stepped on a lot of Frankie's dreams. 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:40.694 You get a little older 01:30:41.280 --> 01:30:43.570 and you get harder and you get harder. 01:30:44.280 --> 01:30:46.400 Sometimes you forget what's important. 01:30:48.120 --> 01:30:49.093 But today 01:30:51.060 --> 01:30:52.810 one of my dreams came true. 01:30:55.139 --> 01:30:58.414 I found out why my son Frankie was born. 01:30:58.824 --> 01:31:01.020 What is this? A fucking christening? 01:31:01.040 --> 01:31:01.930 Where's my money? 01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:04.488 Tucci. 01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:09.740 You know what's in here? 01:31:13.260 --> 01:31:14.469 Ten thousand dollars. 01:31:15.659 --> 01:31:16.804 That's what I owe you. 01:31:17.054 --> 01:31:18.338 Vitto, give it to Tucci. 01:31:18.508 --> 01:31:19.464 No, give it to him. 01:31:20.260 --> 01:31:21.750 No, you don't owe him anything. 01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:25.042 - Merry Christmas, Pesce. - Likewise, Louie. 01:31:25.340 --> 01:31:26.569 What are you doing? 01:31:31.224 --> 01:31:32.494 Frankie, I owe it to you. 01:31:32.579 --> 01:31:34.199 He can't take that money! 01:31:34.220 --> 01:31:35.695 He can't take that money! 01:31:35.825 --> 01:31:37.321 He loaned me the money. 01:31:37.800 --> 01:31:39.590 I owed it to him and I paid it. 01:31:43.020 --> 01:31:46.600 I heard that you were in trouble, 01:31:48.780 --> 01:31:50.410 so I gave Tucci the ticket. 01:31:56.580 --> 01:31:58.398 You gave Tucci the ticket? 01:32:00.830 --> 01:32:02.113 I gave Tucci the ticket. 01:32:02.380 --> 01:32:03.800 You gave him the ticket. 01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:07.185 You didn't give him the ticket. 01:32:07.275 --> 01:32:08.892 Did you give him the ticket, huh? 01:32:08.892 --> 01:32:10.361 Papa, for Christ's sake. 01:32:10.361 --> 01:32:12.958 Don't do one of these in front of everybody, all right? 01:32:12.958 --> 01:32:15.730 I gave the ticket away, I was at the restaurant. 01:32:15.780 --> 01:32:17.340 I gave it to one of his goons. 01:32:19.500 --> 01:32:21.219 I got a call from Philly Knapp. 01:32:22.539 --> 01:32:24.725 He told me what happened at the club tonight. 01:32:25.099 --> 01:32:26.646 You are my son, I'm your father, 01:32:26.646 --> 01:32:28.780 so I figured out what you were going to do. 01:32:29.040 --> 01:32:30.620 The guy you gave the ticket to, 01:32:31.620 --> 01:32:33.009 big friend of mine. 01:32:33.719 --> 01:32:34.640 Frankie. 01:32:37.080 --> 01:32:38.890 You gave the ticket 01:32:38.940 --> 01:32:40.005 back to yourself! 01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:41.689 What? 01:32:43.294 --> 01:32:44.294 We got it. 01:33:02.120 --> 01:33:03.770 Where did you get the money? 01:33:03.860 --> 01:33:05.320 Where did I get the money? 01:33:05.480 --> 01:33:06.380 The 10 grand? 01:33:06.657 --> 01:33:07.537 Jimmy V. 01:33:08.940 --> 01:33:10.357 Am I good for the 10g? 01:33:11.100 --> 01:33:12.560 You got it, Mr Pesce. 01:33:35.400 --> 01:33:38.375 This one you're gonna love it. 01:33:52.367 --> 01:33:53.367 Buon Natale. 01:33:56.380 --> 01:33:58.850 What the hell did you say to those guys in the car? 01:33:59.310 --> 01:34:00.940 I wished them a merry Christmas. 01:34:33.420 --> 01:34:34.446 Frankie. 01:34:38.040 --> 01:34:38.990 Hey, Pop. 01:34:42.780 --> 01:34:43.770 This is yours. 01:34:48.780 --> 01:34:49.542 Frankie. 01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:54.666 Did you know the first time I saw you made me cry? 01:35:00.179 --> 01:35:01.662 What you did tonight was great. 01:35:03.000 --> 01:35:04.593 I want to thank you for it. 01:35:08.400 --> 01:35:10.589 Just a good thing that you're smarter than me. 01:35:12.019 --> 01:35:14.290 I'm just older. 01:35:17.400 --> 01:35:19.882 You said some beautiful things in there tonight. 01:35:26.100 --> 01:35:30.815 But would you finish the same way you started saying in there? 01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:32.911 What? 01:35:36.650 --> 01:35:38.040 Know why I was born? 01:35:48.780 --> 01:35:49.870 I don't know. 01:35:51.719 --> 01:35:52.705 I don't know. 01:35:54.840 --> 01:35:57.379 Why don't you go out there and find out yourself? 01:36:07.530 --> 01:36:11.060 From time to time I think back on Rocky Savv's theory of life. 01:36:11.220 --> 01:36:15.149 You're born, you grow old and you die. 01:36:16.470 --> 01:36:18.054 Maybe that's all there is to it. 01:36:18.959 --> 01:36:21.871 And we just keep making it more complicated than we need to. 01:36:24.150 --> 01:36:25.334 My father's gone now. 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:28.035 But I remember how years later, 01:36:28.035 --> 01:36:30.310 when we were up at the new house on Glen Cove, 01:36:30.360 --> 01:36:32.835 overlooking his new lawn of Kentucky Bluegrass 01:36:32.835 --> 01:36:34.860 about half the size of a football field. 01:36:36.060 --> 01:36:37.065 I said to him, 01:36:38.520 --> 01:36:40.889 'I guess there's a happy ending for us after all'. 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:44.269 'Happy ending', he said. 01:36:45.719 --> 01:36:47.380 I wouldn't have it any other way.