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Immigrant Son: The Story of John D. Mezzogiorno

  • 20112011
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Immigrant Son: The Story of John D. Mezzogiorno - Official Movie Poster
Award winning documentary film by Frank Cappiello traces the voyage of a family with peasant roots from their journey across the Atlantic and arrival at Ellis Island, and the slums of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and on to the Bronx of the 1910s-1960s, a promised land. The American Dream.
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Something is pulling at John Mezzogiorno. Voices from the past are calling him back to tell their story, in in doing so to tell his own. Immigrant Son follows John's attempt as a fourth gene... Read allSomething is pulling at John Mezzogiorno. Voices from the past are calling him back to tell their story, in in doing so to tell his own. Immigrant Son follows John's attempt as a fourth generation American to make sense of his past, the travails of his ancestors who came to the n... Read allSomething is pulling at John Mezzogiorno. Voices from the past are calling him back to tell their story, in in doing so to tell his own. Immigrant Son follows John's attempt as a fourth generation American to make sense of his past, the travails of his ancestors who came to the new world, and ultimately America itself. From a traffic jam on the Cross Bronx Expressway,... Read all
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    • Frank Cappiello
  • Writer
    • Justin Cappiello
  • Star
    • Michael Desantis(voice)
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    Immigrant Son Still: Little Italy in Manhattan - Corner of Grand and Mott Streets
    Immigrant Son Still: Spaghetti & Marinara Sauce - Bronx, NY - 1965
    Immigrant Son Still: Turn of the Century Immigrant Arriving at Ellis Island - 1907
    Immigrant Son Still: Medieval Italian Town - Muro Lucano

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