Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Mar 2, 1978 Wide
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Jimmy Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) wants to be a concert pianist. Jimmy's dad, Ben Angelelli (Michael V. Gazzo), wants his son to go into the family business. So far, so banal. But the "family business" depicted in Fingers is organized crime, and therein lies the film's perverse appeal. Fingers represents the directorial debut of screenwriter James Toback, who also wrote the script. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Mar 2, 1978 Wide
Nov 5, 2002
Media Home Entertainment
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (1) | DVD (11)
Portrait of the artist as a young thug
Wow. Cool.
Probably one of the most naked psychodramas of its decade.
A penetrating portrait of tortured, impotent masculinity and the foolishness of attempting to be something you're not.
Fingers works for a handful of reasons - not the least of which is a phenomenal early performance by Harvey Keitel.
To see Fingers is to see Keitel perform as if he's doing dramatic improv. And that's absolutely fine as it is.
"Fingers" may be a homely stepbrother to Robert De Niro's classic Martin Scorsese vehicles, but it's an interesting curiosity (if hardly a great movie). Harvey Keitel breaks out as a leading man, carrying every scene as Jimmy, an immature, anxious twentysomething who's torn between dreams of becoming a classical
March 17, 2008Super Reviewer
Rough and ready original version of the French THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, with Harvey Keitel torn between the two career choices of being a classical pianist and roughing up people who owe his dad money. To my mind this, the original, is the better film, butthat's only because I like 70's films in general, and 70's
January 30, 2011
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