Boardwalk

Stephen Verona's (The Lords of Flatbush) 1979 drama starring Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 25, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: MVD

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rating: B- -- Bleak and unpleasant film. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 16, 2015
An odd mixture of understated drama and allegory for urban decay, but it's never less than compelling thanks to the performances of the two stars. Full Review
Daily Grindhouse
Aug 3, 2019
Rating: 2.5/5 -- A messy melodrama.
Film Threat
Aug 8, 2014

Description by OLDIES.com:

Boardwalk is a film about love, violence, and survival. Married for 50 loving years, David (Lee Strasberg) and Becky (Ruth Gordon) have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for most of their life together. But the area is not what it used to be, and their children ask them to move. A powerful and determined man, David states, "I left one country, I'm not about to leave another. This is where I choose to live and nobody, but nobody, is going to make me leave." But Becky becomes ill and David's cafeteria and synagogue are vandalized by thugs. David must make his final stance.

Product Description:

In this drama, David Rosen (Lee Strasberg) and his wife Becky (Ruth Gordon) have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut (Kim Delgado) has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated. When Becky dies, David decides that he can stand no more, and he plots his revenge against Strut and his underlings. Director Stephen F. Verona manages to combine a DEATH WISH-style revenge scenario with a mood piece that generates a very real nostalgia for what Coney Island once was -- and still is for many of the characters in this story.

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  • UPC: 760137592594
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