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Writers:
Sal Mazzotta (writer)
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2004 (USA) more
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Apparent heir to the Philadelphia Paradiso mafia family, Frank Paradiso, finds himself confronted with... more | add synopsis
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Here's a movie that teaches how not to make a bad movie. more (16 total)

Cast

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Sal Mazzotta ... Frank Paradiso

Leo Rossi ... Vito Lupo
Robert Costanzo ... Antonio Paradiso

Johnny Williams ... Danny Defino

Ken Lerner ... Sid Freeman

Tamela D'Amico ... Gina Paradiso

Susan Priver ... Lisa Paradiso
Freddie Ganno ... Vince Lupo

Tony Devon ... Louie Eggs

Frank Adonis ... Luca Veneri
Louis Lippa ... Gus Armadino

Tony Luke Jr. ... Paulie Hammer
William DaRuffa ... Richie Z
Susan Moses ... Maria Paradiso
Joe LaBarbera ... Peter Veneri
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The Father, the Son (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for language, violence, sexuality and drug use.
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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Here's a movie that teaches how not to make a bad movie., 5 March 2007
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Author: madbandit20002000 from Queens, New York, USA

Sure, they've been a lot of bad movies that are perfect examples on how not to make one that's so damn bad, but "Mafioso: The Father, The Son", a dog's mess on the sidewalk that pathetically fails at being on par with the Godfather films and "The Sopranos", does a more than obvious job. Here are nine "don't" rules:

1) Don't give your film a bad title. 2) Don't have one of your film's co-writers act as the main character if he can't look awake and traditionally handsome, let alone act. Put a REAL gun in his mouth, and he'll get the message. 3) Don't create a mute supporting character and make him so damn uninteresting, except being fat and able to handle kung-fu combatants. 4) Don't hire good supporting actors to act in a crap film. 5) Don't have your actors, if you're working on a Mafia drama, emote every Italian stereotype in the bigot book and dehumanize your characters into caricatures. 6) Don't advertise your film being scored by an Oscar-winning music composer, when you don't. 7) Don't have a voice-over at the film's start and end when the story's happening in the present. 8) Don't have a bad film editor. 9) Don't "wide-screen" something that looks like a third-rate daytime soap opera.

If you're interested in the story of a mobster's son taking over the "family business", when "the Goddaddy" is killed, you're better off making the film yourself, if you follow the aforementioned rules. Avoid "Mafioso" like every STDs in existence, capeech?

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