Storyline

Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Plot Keywords

new yorker, surprise after end credits, swimming pool, talking to the camera, teenage boy, teenage girl, vandalism, writer director, n word, subway station, single mother, nosebleed, novelist, poem, pot smoking, puerto rican, radiator, scene during end credits, scottish, adaptation directed by original author

Short Review

Given all the filmed memory pieces about screaming, violent Italian-American families in New York boroughs, I'm not especially thrilled by even a well-made example.

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