Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming... Read allWitness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.Witness the making of Tony Soprano. The story that reveals the humanity behind Tony's struggles and the influence his family - especially his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti - had over him becoming the most iconic mob boss of all time.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film's title comes from Dickie Moltisanti's family's name which when translated from Italian to English means "many saints."
- GoofsWhen Tony is handing out free ice cream, the shot of him handing an ice cream cone to the boy wearing a vest (1:06:17) is re-used just a few seconds later.
- Quotes
Christopher Moltisanti: [Final lines] That's the guy, my uncle Tony. The guy I went to hell for.
- SoundtracksStardust
Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish
Performed by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
We have a bunch of mafia guys with no actual enemies. A mistress we don't really care about, since the lead character doesn't seem to really. A "business associate" turned rival that only Dickie really interacts with and in the end doesn't seem relevant to anything.
The Sopranos connection is weak at best, except for the Junior stuff, but even that is fan service done poorly. Here's that line from the show "wink wink".
We do get to find out what happened to Dickie, but that would've meant more if it turned out Tony knew when he sent Christopher after his dad's killer in the show.
Having Tony Soprano as a teenager wandering through the movie here and there but not really being a part of him was a waste.
Prequels are hard, unless you go back far enough where none of the characters are really relevant, you end up winking at the audience and mentioning things that happened instead of focusing on the story.
This movie made me appreciate what Better Call Saul does even more.
Showing us events that we "heard" about, introducing characters we already knew and maybe know where they end up, showing what made a character act a certain way, how they got that scar, it's all fun and good fan service, but you need a story. This movie didn't really have one.
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- Also known as
- Los Santos De La Mafia
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,237,403
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,651,571
- Oct 3, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $13,037,403
- Runtime2 hours
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1