The Funeral

Synopsis: In the 30's, in New York, the coffin of the leftist gangster Johnny Tempio is brought to the house of his older brother Ray for the wake of family and friends. Ray is a cold gangster that likes to read and is married to Jean. His brother Chez is a hot head that runs a bar and is married to Clara . Ray decides to revenge the murder of his younger brother and believes the gangster Gaspare is the one who killed Johnny. Meanwhile Chez has a breakdown with tragic consequences for the Tempio brothers.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Abel Ferrara
Production: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
1996
99 min
754 Views


Ray, at thirteen a Jewish boy

becomes a man.

They have a celebration they call

Bar Mitzvah; it means "Son of the law."

But this doesn't mean he's prepared

to confront the world as a man...

In fact, he's still a baby.

He still carries fears in his heart

The faster he conquers these fears,

the faster he becomes a man;

the more prepared he is

to live in this world.

This man has betrayed you.

He has robbed the property

of you and your brothers.

He has to die because life doesn't allow

enemies to live side by side forever.

If he leaves here alive,

he will eventually return to kill,

because he'll be driven by the fear

that one day we'll change our minds.

There's one shell in the chamber.

Kill him.

I'm not doing it;

either you do it or we set him free

and you can wait for him to return.

Carry this with you.

Nothing will cost you more.

I heard the shot.

I went into the garage

and he was in the back,

in the car,

with the shotgun across his chest.

They wouldn't let his wife see him;

they can't even bury him in a

Catholic cemetery.

A woman and three boys...

Is this how you take care of your family?

Now what are these poor people

supposed to do?

What a sin.

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Nicholas St. John

For the American screenwriter, see Nicholas St. John (screenwriter). Nicholas St. John (by 1526 – 8 November 1589), was an English politician. He was the eldest son of Sir John St John of Lydiard Park, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire. He succeeded his father in 1576. He was a Gentleman pensioner by 1552 to 1560. He sat on the Wiltshire bench as a Justice of the Peace from c.1574 and was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1579–80. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Camelford in March 1553, Saltash in 1555, Cricklade in 1563, Great Bedwyn in 1571 and Marlborough in 1572. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, with whom he had 3 sons and 5 daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son, John. His second son, Oliver, was made Lord Deputy of Ireland and Viscount Grandison. more…

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