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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
James Toback (writer)
Release Date:
23 August 1978 (France) more
Tagline:
A powerful film about sex, music and violent crime. more
Plot:
A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother. full summary | add synopsis
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Unfortunately always in the shadow of "Taxi Driver". more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Harvey Keitel | ... | Jimmy Fingers |
 | Tisa Farrow | ... | Carol |
 | Jim Brown | ... | Dreems |
| Michael V. Gazzo | ... | Ben |
 | Marian Seldes | ... | Ruth |
 | Danny Aiello | ... | Butch |
 | Ed Marinaro | ... | Gino |
| Georgette Mosbacher | ... | Anita (as Georgette Muir) |
 | Tanya Roberts | ... | Julie |
| Carole Francis | ... | Christa |
| Lenny Montana | ... | Luchino |
| Vasco Valladeres | ... | Luchino's Son |
 | Tony Sirico | ... | Riccamonza (as Anthony Sirico) |
| Tom Signorelli | ... | Italian Prisoner |
 | Dominic Chianese | ... | Arthur Fox |
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90 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 | France:-16 | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:R | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1979) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Australia:R
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Danny Aiello, who played one of Tony Sirica's two bodyguards, objected to holding the door or lighting the cigarette of his boss while in character. Those actions were done by actor Ed Marinaro, who played the other thug. more
Quotes:
Ruth:
[interrupting her son's innocuous greeting] I don't want to hear it.
Jimmy:
What?
Ruth:
Whatever it is you plan to hurt me with.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) more
Soundtrack:
Now Is Forever more
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Soundtrack : what's the name of the pianist who plays Bach's toccata (BWV914) ?more
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This early movie of actor Harvey Keitel is still rather unknown and was always overshadowed by the successful Keitel and de Niro movies like Scorsese's "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver". With Scorsese and di Niro being absent in this production, it was Keitel's time for a leading part.
He plays the schizophrenic character "Fingers", a brutal repo man who is dreaming of a classical piano player career in a distant future beyond violence. He falls in love with an ignorant woman, tries to convince his father and mentor of his musical talents, but also has to take any dirty job to survive. Finally he takes his famous "last job" and tries to get a large amount of money from a brutal Mafia youngster, but has to face his biggest enemy - and his last big showdown.
"Fingers" is a rather calm movie which leaves enough place for Keitel to show the different personalities of "Fingers". There are dirty back roads, a bloody showdown and the tristesse of other sad New York stories, but not the glam and the roaring action of the Scorsese movies. And there are always evidences of hope and love which are finally crushed by the wheels of reality... Watch out for "Fingers", one of Harvey Keitel's best performances ever.