Sunnyside

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There are some men who don't walk away from a challenge.
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Nick Martin is one of them.
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He's spent his life on the streets, and now he may lose it there.
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Joey Travolta is Nick Martin.
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He's tough, tender, terrific.
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Joey Travolta stars in Sunnyside.
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We're not talking about actors.
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We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back.
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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I'm know they’re gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor,
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help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that’s right!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're going to make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in Hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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This is the American International Podcast where we not so coincidentally discuss movies
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released by American International Pictures.
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I'm Jeff Markin.
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I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And on this episode, we're looking at Sunnyside from 1979.
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Sunnyside was directed by Timothy Galfas, written by Timothy Galfas and Jeff King,
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from a story by Jeff King and Robert L. Schaffel and produced by Robert Schaffel for American
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International Pictures.
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Sunnyside stars Joey Travolta as Nick Martin, John Lansing as Denny Martin, Stacey
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Pickren as Donna Rosario, Andrew Rubin as Eddie Reaper, Michael Tucci as Harry Cimoli,
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Talia Balsam as Ann Rosario, Joan Darling as Mrs. Martin, and also stars Chris Mulkey
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as Reggie Flynn, Richard Beauchamp as Hector, Heshimu Cumbuka as Ice, JJonathon Gries as Wild
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Child, E. Lamont Johnson as Rage, and Billy Jacoby as Billy.
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Sunnyside opens with shots of a Queen's neighborhood and a text telling us that Samuel
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Z. Arkoff and Lou S. Arkoff present this film.
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We get a good look at the New York City skyline too.
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And the sunny side theme performed by the New York City Band plays.
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We see neighborhood kids playing basketball and just typical New York scenery.
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And then we catch up with some of the main characters.
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This is the Nightcrawlers Gang and they're meeting up.
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We don't really know who they are yet.
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Most of them are dressed in denim except for one who shops at the Herb Tarleck collection.
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He dresses like a used car salesman.
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This suits her quite loud.
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Nick, the leader of the gang, stops by the bakery where his girlfriend Donna works to confirm
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their date at Christos that evening.
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So that evening at Christos, Donna is waiting at the bar and Nickbox break pastor, goes up to
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the bar in order 86 to the sandwiches and a six pack to go.
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Rapt he confirms when the bartender asks him.
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For some reason Donna finds this amusing and the two of them start to dance.
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However, Nick's gang friends come in to kill the vibe for Nick and Donna.
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He tries to shoot them away but it's too late.
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They've succeeded in ruining his date.
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Donna goes outside.
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It's funny how they do this because Harry just goes up and says he's going to have a drink
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and then Ruggie comes up and says he's going to go have a drink with Harry and they're just
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doing it to be obnoxious.
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It looks like Donna's used to this.
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Nick follows Donna out.
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He doesn't stay with his friends and they decide they're going to go for a walk leaving
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his friends behind.
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He says that they've been over else to go and they'll be fine.
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That's their regular hangout as we'll find out.
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So then he suggests that they take in the carnival.
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As they're walking there, Donna says that she just wants to get away.
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The two of them, not all his friends.
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They walk around the carnival for a bit and they get to a game stand and Donna picks down
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a doll she'd like to win.
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It's the one where you have to throw balls at a knock over the bottles.
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So they get to be thrown for a dollar and Donna takes the first two balls and whiffs them
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both.
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Nick takes the last ball.
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He throws a ball and hits the pyramid of bottles square in the center.
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They don't budge.
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The ball bounces off.
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Nick recognizes that this is a cheat.
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Nick is insisting he gets a doll for his throw but the carnival is insistent that
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they've got to scatter.
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However, his boss or somebody, not quite on camera, says just give him the doll.
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They've obviously been made as a fraud.
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However, this is going to stick in Nick's cruff for a good portion of the movie.
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Later, Nick asked Donna if she had fun at the carnival tonight.
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He says he's never taking anybody there before.
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They stroll by an empty lad and Nick stops and describes the dream house that he'd like
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to build with her there.
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They dream of a bright future together.
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And now we're at a factory where Nick's brother, Denny, is getting undressed after work.
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He's in the locker room with all the other guys when a supervisor comes in to look for volunteers
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for overtime.
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Nobody wants to do it.
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And Denny begs off because tonight is his turn to make dinner and somehow this works.
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Three other guys get assigned to it.
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And he does because next thing we have is dinner at the Martin household and Denny has made
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dinner.
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It's spaghetti with clams.
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Also there is he and next mother, Donna and their little brother, Billy.
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Denny's excited because he has a job interview at an ad-aing new seat.
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And if he gets this job, it's going to change all their lives.
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Apparently he's some kind of artist, graphic artist.
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Donna and Nick would both like to introduce Donna's sister and to Nick's brother, Denny.
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Little Billy says he isn't hungry.
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He said he had too many hot dogs today.
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So Nick takes Billy to his room and puts him to bed.
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The Nick comes back and says goodbye.
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He's going out.
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His mom and Donna are just appointed at Nick as the staying in tonight.
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Denny thinks this is to be expected.
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And after Nick leaves, tries to coax the others to eat.
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And now we're in a very strange scene.
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A rival gang leader named Eddie Reaper is screwing some chicken in a bedroom while a bunch
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of unrelated people hold a Bible study class out in the living room.
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Well, it's led by Eddie Reaper's father.
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Eddie Reaper is with this girl, but Denny suddenly gets dressed and leaves.
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But he makes sure that the people in the Bible study group are aware of his presence before
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he goes.
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Yeah, he makes a crew gesture at them at the door and then leaves them scandalized in his
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wake.
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So now we meet some of Reaper's gang.
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They're the savage warlocks.
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They're walking down the street.
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And we see Nick's gang is doing the same, but towards them from the opposite direction.
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And they're all going to meet at Nick's request.
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Yes, this is some sort of gang summit.
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It's going to include a third gang that are called the death makers.
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I guess the idea is that if they work together, they can achieve more and maybe put an end
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to some of the inner gang violence that's been plaguing all of them.
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Harry, the guy with the loud suits warns Nick that he can't trust the other gangs and
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he tells Nick he's a dreamer.
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But Nick says that these gangs are the toughest gangs in the neighborhood and that's why
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they need to band together.
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The three gangs converge in a deserted ballroom chosen by Nick to have their summit.
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There's a stage where the curtain's still hanging from it and there's chairs in a circle.
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It's really kind of an out location for this meaning to be taking place.
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Yeah, but it's neutral territory and they can all be comfortable there as comfortable
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as they can be.
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So while the summit might be about working together and putting an end to inner gang hostilities,
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Nick has got other injustices on his mind.
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Because carnival barkers are ripping people off, this will not stand and Nick wants to do
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something about it.
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He wants to take down the carnival.
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You're supposed to be giving to the community, he says, but instead they're ripping off the
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people in the neighborhood and taking them for chumps.
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All the gang members are really keyed up at the moment and Nick demands seriousness.
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The gangs can work together to stop all this.
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Reaper declares that this is a groundbreaking collaboration and that trust is a must.
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At the age, the leader of the death makers razz is Reaper for being too old, calls him a grandpa.
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Nick tries to take control.
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He's going to hear all this bickering there, therefore a purpose to take down those carnival
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cheats.
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So Reaper asks what it is he's proposing they do and Nick responds to Reaper by handing
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him a gun.
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How many more of these can you get asked Reaper?
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Enough says Nick.
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Reaper hands the gun over to one of his fellow gang members.
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He throws it to the ground and it shatters.
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It's just a toy.
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Nick doesn't want any real violence tonight.
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Like those down a hand drawn map of the carnival layout and assigned sections to himself to
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Reaper and to rage.
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It's a crudely drawn map on butcher paper.
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It's just a bunch of rectangles and circles.
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So I don't know how they're supposed to know which way is up or anything.
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Nothing's labeled.
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This is a really funny scene, honestly.
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Rage says they'll have to bust some heads so that people will know that they were there.
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Reaper says everyone will know the gangs were there because the gangs will have all their
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money.
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Nick confirms that this job will put money in their pockets and afterwards if they
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wanted to bust each other's heads, that's their business.
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But first they take care of the carnival.
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He calls it a carnival.
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And now outside this groundbreaking summit, there are two men fighting in the alley.
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The alley is just disgusting.
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The rival gang members come out to bust up the fight and we see that one of the guys is
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Denny and the night crawler stopped him from getting his ass kicked.
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Nick walks Denny home.
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A little later, Nick asked Denny what he was doing there tonight.
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Denny says he was worried about him.
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He had heard that Nick was meeting up with Eddie Reaper.
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Nick tells Denny he hears too much and he should have stayed home.
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But Nick says Denny.
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Eddie Reaper?
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He's a killer.
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Nick wants Denny to work on his art and to get a girlfriend and praises some of Denny's
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graffiti that Nick saw earlier.
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Denny tells Nick to stop the con.
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But Nick is serious.
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Nick doesn't have talent like Denny.
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Gang stuff is all he has.
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And then Nick cautions his brother to clean up before their mother sees them.
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Now when I rooftop where Eddie Reaper and some of his savage warlocks are trying to get
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into the tigrae business, they're meeting with a supplier named Desi.
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I guess he's kind of a bootleg supplier.
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Yeah, he's a wholesaler, let's say.
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Reaper offers to take 50 cartons off of him, but Desi tells him that the minimum is 3000,
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but Reaper only wants 50.
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But they come in 3000.
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What are you going to do?
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Reaper tells Desi that he knows a really good body shop.
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When Desi asks for what, Reaper walks to the roof ledge, looks over, grabs a huge chunk
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of concrete from the top of the roof and drops it onto the hood of Desi's car.
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That's what for.
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Now we're back at Christos, the gang's bar of choice.
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And Harry and Alvin tell Nick that he just missed Denny.
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Nick is adamant that Denny isn't to be involved in any of their gang business.
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And the rest of the gang arrive and now it's time to go to the carnival job.
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And now we're at the carnival or almost some Iki-Dude named Beebe from the Death Makers watches
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as his boss rage tries to get some against a fence.
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And then Reaper and Nick arrive to get the violence started.
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The gang's getting to position.
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Once the position, the robberies all go on simultaneously.
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The only problem is the savage warlock set brought real guns instead of the toy guns Nick was
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supplying.
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So several people are killed.
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Reaper and his number one man, Ice, take a moment from getting concessions to take out
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rage and Beebe because they're having their weird threesome again against a trailer.
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Once they've killed them, they leave with their cracker jacks.
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Now we're back at the night crawlers hangout and they're discussing the killings that went
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on tonight.
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Nick wasn't part of their plan and Gearbox says that rage getting stuff wasn't in accident.
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And then Nick arrives.
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Yes, if they have all the money and Harry has put it all in a paper sack.
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Nick tells them all to stay out of the clubhouse tonight.
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It's too hot there.
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It's possible the warlocks might be coming by since they know that they have this large
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sum of money.
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Which is weird because they're going to go to the warlocks to split the money.
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Well, they might not want to split it.
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Haha.
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And they might get ambushed.
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So Nick leaves taking a few of the night claws with him and they give Nick a gun to take
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with him.
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A real gun.
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Nick Alvin, Harry, Reggie and Ice, Nick asked who among them is the most pissed off.
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Harry says it's him.
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So Nick hands over the gun to Reggie to hold.
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Harry doesn't trust these violent warlocks, especially as they're going into the ballroom
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to give them the money that they stole.
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Nick promises that Reaper will split it up fairly.
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They arrive and Nick voices his displeasure and what went on tonight.
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He's not happy to use real guns.
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That wasn't part of the plan.
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No guns, no armed robbery.
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Reaper says that what happened to rage was his personal business.
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And now like a split that take 50/50.
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She gets a little over excited.
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It pulls on the gun, but Nick hasn't put it away.
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Then Nick tells Reaper to keep off his turf.
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Reaper says, "Okay, Nick, I got what I wanted and you got what you wanted."
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So now we split and we're even.
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Nick gives Reaper all the cash.
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Reaper hands it to one of his lieutenants and they count it.
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And apparently Nick's take is half of the $6,921 that they stole.
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Reaper makes to throw the bag to Nick and then holds off saying that they could have more
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profitable adventures in the future.
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And on a personal note, blowing up isn't good for your health.
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Then he tosses the bag to Nick.
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Snaps the finger and walks out with the night crawlers following him.
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The guys are down, but Nick knows how to cheer them up.
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A party.
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A party.
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And the guys are really excited.
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But then Nick asks Harry for the use of his apartment and Reggie grants it.
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As he says, "Hey, that's my place."
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But it says, "Okay, anyways."
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And that heal, make sure he doesn't come home too early.
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Reggie asks him to say hi to Donna for him.
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So Nick and Donna take advantage of the apartment.
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But first they have to change the sheets.
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Then Donna goes to the kitchen to fetch a couple of glasses, but all she can find in
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the cupboard is cigarettes.
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From top to bottom left to right, it's all cigarettes.
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I know he doesn't drink, but he sure does smoke, she says.
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She asks what it's all about and Nick says it's Harry's business.
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Donna counters that he's a night crawler than it's Nick's business, too.
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Then she implores him to leave the gang.
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He's got so much going for him.
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But Nick insists he's got to do what he's got to do.
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And what he's going to do right now is Donna.
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Yeah, they have some badly stage sex.
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It's not well lit.
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It's not well-active.
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And it's no fun to watch.
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Oh, and there's a terrible song underneath.
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The soundtrack plays "Loving You" by the New York City Band.
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And now we're at breakfast the next day at the Martin Place.
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The Martin Boys, Denny and Nick have a coded conversation in front of their little brother
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who thinks their mom is hot for Christo the rest of the tour.
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Their mom comes out and the boys give her a fistful of cash to treat herself.
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It's her birthday.
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At the night crawler clubhouse, Nick closes a deal with Dezi the cigarette wholesaler.
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Reggie's going to pick up the merchandise.
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Outside his shopkeeper is cleaning up some damage.
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It tells Gearbox to hang out here and keep an eye out in case there's any more trouble.
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Nick also generously gives the man some cash because this man runs a grocery store and gives
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a neighborhood residence credit a lot of the times.
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So now that they're flush with cash, they're going to do him a solid.
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Then Nick and Harry head out and Harry's car to talk to Reaper.
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Apparently Reaper has brought several of the death makers into his gang since they were
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without a leader and they've been causing trouble in the neighborhood.
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Harry reminds them that they do make money together, right?
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They find Reaper hanging out with his gang on a corner and Nick says that someone has
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been dumping in on their territory.
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He says they can handle the guy who's been spray painting the buildings but he wants Reaper
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to let the guy who's been breaking windows to know they had a could lead to broken arms.
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He says he's also heard that Reaper has been adding to his gang.
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"Yeah, well, some of the fellows wanted some extra security," says Reaper.
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"Give it to him," says Nick.
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They may need it.
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Then Harry drives the car off and Reaper goes back to his pals.
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Now we're at the bakery where Donna, her sister Ann and their dad are working.
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Some warlords burst in and bust up the place.
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They spread cake everywhere, break glass, terrify the girls.
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It's a nightmare.
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And apparently this is the day of the party.
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Harry meets his girl Diane on the street.
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They're about to go up to Nick's mother's apartment.
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She's brought a gift and a six pack, but she's kind of homely.
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So Harry's only going to be seen with her in private.
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He tells her that he'll meet her later at her place because she's not allowed to come
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over to his.
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He takes the party gift and five, six of the six pack that she's holding and goes up alone.
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However, he does give her a $10 bill for her trouble.
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Nick and Reggie have been watching this exchange turn the balcony above.
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Inside the apartment is being decorated for Nick's mom's party.
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Elvin is pasting magazine clippings to the wall.
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Nick tells him that this won't fly it as mom's party and tells him to take them down.
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He and the rest of the gang are setting up food and decor.
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It's all kind of half-hazard.
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Nick notices that Denny's not there.
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He also sends Reggie out to take that shipment of cigarettes and count all the cartons
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to make sure they're all full.
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Now we're back at the bakery where Donna and her sister are recovering from the earlier
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invasion and cleaning up when Denny arrives to pick up the cake.
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Which fortunately was in the back, so it didn't get damaged.
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And goes to the back to retrieve it, and Reggie comes in and joins him.
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And brings out the cake, and Donna introduces Denny to Anne they hadn't met before.
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And since they're all going to the party and and Denny decided to go together, Reggie says
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he's going to stay and help Donna clean up first.
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I think Reggie has a thing for Donna.
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Reggie has a big thing for Donna, but everyone treats it as just a harmless fixation,
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I guess.
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Now we see Denny and Anne arrive at the party.
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They tell Nick what happened at the bakery.
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Denny thinks that he knows who did it.
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I mean, kind of obvious.
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But now it's time to kill the lights.
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Nick's mom is nearly home.
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She comes in, the lights go up in the yellow surprise, and she's surprised.
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Then the party commences for real.
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They do sing happy birthday in kind of a strange tempo.
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Well, there's only one confirmed singer in the group.
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Let me go back to the clubhouse where Reggie is accepting that cigarette shipment from
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Desi.
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Desi says he needs to talk to Nick later and Reggie beats over and over that he was told
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to check out the shipment and Desi's like, whatever.
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Back at the party, Anne is dancing with Denny.
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I turn you on, Donna, she says.
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She suggests they go elsewhere, but Nick's in the bedroom.
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So Anne suggests they go to the John and we see they're laying in the tub, Anne is on
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top of Denny and they're kissing.
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But then she suddenly stands up, goes to the medicine cabinet and sprays shaving cream
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on him.
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Let me see Desi and his guys packing up the truck and leaving as Reaper and his gang
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get ready to attack.
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Once Desi and his guys are gone, they go into the night crawler clubhouse and interrupt Reggie's
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counting.
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That's not a good thing.
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Reggie warns them to get out of there before he starts kicking some ass, but it just makes
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the world X laughs as they outnumber him five to one.
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Reaper suggests that Reggie go on up to the party while they take half the cigarettes.
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Then Reggie starts a fight he can't win.
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Nope, they beat him good.
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And we know this because the next scene takes place outside the hospital where Denny and
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Nick are waiting in the rain.
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And he still wants to get that job with the advertising agency and get Nick out of
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there.
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But Nick isn't going anywhere.
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Those are too heavy right now.
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Denny wants him to think of other people right now.
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His mother, Billy, and to keep himself safe for their sake.
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Nick rolls his eyes at the idea that someone might love him.
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Me too.
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But Nick says he's got to do what he's got to do.
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He tries to give Denny a cab fare, but Denny can make his own way home.
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Snow we're back at Christos.
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Nick gearbox Alvin and I served at the bar when Harry joins them.
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They're all upset about Reggie and they're angry with Reaper for what he did to him.
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He didn't make it.
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That's where we find out he died.
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Nick asked Harry if he still got his connection.
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Anything you want ensures Harry, but he warns Nick that the cops are looking for him.
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Nick doesn't care.
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It's time for them to kick some ass.
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Reaper is getting too greedy says Nick.
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He wants them the neighborhood.
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It might be time to fight back.
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Let's bust some heads.
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It seems wild child who I should know is Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.
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And he really lives up to the wild child name here.
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He's so jittery and he's always dancing around like a 80s band hype man.
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After declaring let's bust some heads.
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He picks up a hard boiled egg from a bowl on the counter.
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You're going to need something heavier than that says Nick.
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Then a hard boiled egg.
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Then Nick sends gearbox Alvin to deliver a message to Reaper.
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Alvin is on Nick goes to the bakery to see Donna.
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She missed the party.
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He comments.
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He wants to talk to her privately so they go into the office even though the bakery is
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empty but for the two of them.
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Donna is afraid for Nick.
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She finds out which nightcrawler was killed and is distressed to find out that it was Reggie.
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Donna just wants a normal life where they can go outside without getting shot at.
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She wants him to stay safe.
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Then asks him to make a love to her right there in the office.
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And mercifully we don't have to stay and watch that.
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When Nick does exit the bakery he's accosted by two plain clothes policemen.
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Hey Nick what are you doing to say?
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What am I doing?
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I'm eating the brownie.
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What am I doing?
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They cuff him and take him down to the station for questioning.
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All right with gearbox and Alvin who are going to see Reaper.
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They meet two guys from the gang and Gearbox stammer's out his message to Reaper.
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And then the two guys take turns mocking him.
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It's not pleasant to see but then they take him up to Reaper on the rooftop.
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One of the gang members goes up to Reaper and tells him that two nightcrawlers want to talk
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to him and asks if he wants to talk to them.
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"Well they're here or anything," says Reaper.
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Alvin says that they want to meet on their turf at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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He says they'll come clean and they just want to talk.
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Nick wants to talk to me and firms Reaper and he agrees to the meeting.
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At Christos the Denomofia is sitting at the bar when Harry comes in to deliver the news
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that Nick's been picked up by the cops and he won't be out for 24 to 48 hours.
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This is a problem.
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Nick is the one that was going to wire the stuff to blow up the Warlocks Clubhouse tomorrow.
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And he's otherwise occupied.
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Then he's there and he can't believe this is happening.
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But he agrees to take over for Nick and do the wiring.
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That night it's a really waning night.
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Outside the Warlocks Clubhouse, then he gives Anna Kiss and leaves her as lookout as
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then he and the nightcrawlers head inside with the dynamite.
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They go in and decide that they're actually doing the Warlocks a favor because the places
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are disaster.
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They're rat and festive mess.
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They stumble around in the dark for a while but to get that dynamite set.
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The next day, Harry, Denian, and Anne are walking home.
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Denian assures Harry that this is going to work.
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Denian brings Anne back to his mother's apartment where Billy's there getting ready to leave
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for school.
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He greets his big brother telling him and Anne that he and Nick are both in trouble.
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Their mom is pissed because neither one came home last night.
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Denian tells Billy he was helping Donna.
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Billy leaves her school but isn't buying that story.
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Denian Anne go into his room and sarcastically ask him if he's going to be joining the gang
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now, maybe even be the new leader, but Denian assures her that's not his thing.
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Then Nick suddenly appears in the doorway, glowering at Denian.
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We didn't spend the night here, says Denian.
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I know that.
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I told you to stay out of my business.
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Denian explains that the gang needed help.
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They came to him and he helped them out.
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That's not the point, says Nick.
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And then he had to drag her into this.
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He slaps Denian and says, "Stand on my business."
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Then he slams the door.
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He didn't mean that, says Denian.
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He didn't mean that.
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Denian and Allie, the warlocks await their rivals for the planned rendezvous, but they don't
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show.
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Reaper and I started impatient and figured that something there isn't right.
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Reaper sent his one gang member to the clubhouse to get some guns for them all.
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A safe distance away from the warlock clubhouse, Nick and his gang are waiting for the blast.
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Harry's got his camera ready to take pictures.
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We see the guy that Reaper sent back for guns and to the building, just in time to get
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blow it up real good.
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Here in the explosion, the warlocks jump into action as Harry snaps pictures nearby.
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We run back to see the burning wreckage of their clubhouse.
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Reaper is trying to get in, but the flames are too high and it's not really feasible.
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Later Harry is meeting with Dezi.
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He says he needs cigarettes only.
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These ones are special.
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Steel butts and they need 15 of them.
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When Dezi asks how much money Harry has, he asks to confess that he only has $250.
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That's not really a lot.
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Starting a gang war, asked Dezi.
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He mentions how he would like someone to take care of the warlocks.
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Harry pulls on the polar rides he snapped.
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Take a look at this.
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We blew up their clubhouse.
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Dezi flips through the pictures.
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You guys did this?
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"Yeah, and I'm sorry to hear about your car," says Harry.
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"Yes, as Dezi.
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You know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to give you a dozen thirty-eighths and a nine-millimeter automatic.
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It's a good from Dezi."
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Dezi says he likes Harry's style and says maybe Harry can work for him one day.
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But Harry, you have to think about that.
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So the warlocks are prowling the streets, looking to exact their revenge when they come upon
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gear box.
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He tries to run, but they catch him and beat him, and then they impale his hands into the
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wall.
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"Yes, almost biblical."
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A crowd quickly gathers.
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Harry is there and he tells everyone to stand back.
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He whips off his jacket and places over gear box so he doesn't go into shock.
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Then Nick and some of the other night crawlers run up, and Nick's mom shows up too.
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As do the police with their sirens glaring.
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Now it's dark and Nick and his mother are strolling through the park.
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The one where Nick's mother used to take him when he was a child.
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She wants to know what happened to make Nick how he is today.
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It's almost as if she blames him for what happened to gear box.
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And she's crying, but Nick reassures her that it was a rival gang's doing not his own.
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One day he's going to get her out of this neighborhood, and she won't have to worry about that anymore.
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Now we're in the hospital room where gear box is recuperating, and all the night crawlers
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have come in to visit him.
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Harry tells one of them to watch the door, and he passes out the guns that he's required
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amongst the gang members.
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In an adjoining room, we could see a warlock is eavesdropping on their conversation.
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How we'd never find out.
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Nick arrives and pays his respect to gear box, but that medication has kicked in and he's
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out.
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And we see that the warlock is still listening intently to what the gang is talking
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about.
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Nick is the one who gets to keep the 9mm gun and announces that in two days they'll get
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reaper in his boys.
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Alvin and Harry are checking every move they make.
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And then the warlock goes out the fire escape to tattle to his boss.
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Then Nick goes to spend some time with Donna.
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She's angry with him, but his defense is that he's here with her right now and not them,
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but she feels he's not talking to her anymore.
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She starts to cry.
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She's just afraid she says.
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There's nothing to be scared of, says Nick.
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Then he suggests they go for a ride, so they hail a cabin.
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Take it out to the Staten Island ferry.
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Take the ferry at night and it seems like now all is well for the two of them.
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Nick tells Donna about his gambler father who was killed seven years ago doing something stupid.
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Looking at the skyline, Nick says he likes Manhattan.
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And once again promises to move out of his neighborhood soon.
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Nick says this is their night, the last being implied.
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And he wants it to be like it always was with them.
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It's now morning and Alvin and Harry are on a reconnaissance mission, sticking out
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weeper and the warlocks and getting a feel for their daily routine.
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Now we're with Danny and Ann walking down the street.
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Then he tells Ann that he got the new job, but he fears that he can't hack it and thinks
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that he can hack it because he thought the same thing about their first night together
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and not turned out okay.
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Ann tells Danny her dreams.
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It was to be a psychologist when she grows up.
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She loves the idea of getting into people's heads.
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Though they're in love and they're checking out a potential apartment where they can live
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together with their families, I assume.
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They talk to the landlord and she says that they need to give her an answer by tomorrow.
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After hearing Alvin are still in that stakeout duty, at the end of the day, they decide that
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picking off the warlocks will be simple.
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They go off to report to Nick what they found.
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On the way, Alvin hears trouble.
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It's a warlock and Alvin goes to Karate chop the interloper and then they proceed on their
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way to Nick.
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Next morning, Nick is waiting for Donna outside.
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She arrives and opens with she thinks she's pregnant.
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Nick asks her what if he doesn't want to see her again.
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Danny tackles her and tells her he has a date that night.
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She tells him she's not really pregnant.
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They playfully ban her and say a long last goodbye full of plans for a future that spoiler
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they'll never have.
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Nick tells her that he wants to take her away and she can have a baby and he wants her to
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look just like her and she hopes he looks just like him.
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They say goodbye and Nick heads off to meet the night crawlers.
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And then we're in night crawler headquarters where guns are cocked and plans are finalized.
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Danny is riding in a cab with his mother.
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She can't believe that Danny is getting his own apartment.
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The cab passes the warlocks going down the street and Danny ducks in his seat.
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He has the cab changed direction so he can get out and more Nick.
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The night crawlers continue to head to the meeting where the warlocks are waiting fully armed.
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If they intend to take out Nick, Danny is almost caught up to where Nick and his gang are walking
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and shouts out to warn him of the setup ahead.
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Nick tells him to go back.
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But no sooner does he do that than the shooting starts and soon everyone is getting hit left
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right in center.
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Nick is shot to the leg but he's still standing.
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He shoots ice and reaper.
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Someone from a stairwell shoots Nick in the chest as Danny runs up to Nick as he falls
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into a pile of trash.
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Nick tells his brother he loves him.
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The music comes up as credits roll over the scene of dead people lying on garbage bags.
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And that's the end.
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This is the American International Podcast and we're discussing sunny side from 1979.
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In October 11th 1978 article in Variety reported that principal photography was scheduled to
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begin October 30th on sunny side.
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According to production notes, the men took place to tire the on location in New York City
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in Los Angeles.
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Capture the authenticity of the story, the filmmakers often shot in crime ridden New York
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neighborhoods where they employed extra security and developed a rapport with local youth
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in order to safeguard the set.
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Specific sites in the Los Angeles area included the West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital,
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a bakery in Pasadena California and a steel factory in Torrance, California.
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In a November 1st variety article, producer Robert L. Schaffel said that filming was scheduled
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for seven weeks with a $2 million budget, which was financed through private backers and
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tax shelter funds.
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Sunnyside was Joey Chavulta's film debut.
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After the casting was announced early in October 1978, Chavulta got a lot of press for joining
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his little brother John in the acting biz.
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Liz Smith in her column said, "Joey Chavulta will star in one of those so-called street movies
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for American International.
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Another in the rush of young gangflex.
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It's called Sunnyside."
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Scott Keynes, November 1978 column wrote that, "John Chavulta's older brother Joey starts
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work this week on Sunnyside, a modern day drama.
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Since John's first movies have done substantially more than $200 million at the box office, a producer
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must have deduced that he can't go far wrong with Joey."
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In Elaine Mercuzzi's column published in November 1978, Joey "bristeled when he read Time
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Magazine's report that John had greased Joey's initiation to Thinseltown by dishing out $5,000
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and the promise of a screen test."
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Chavulta said, "That was total bullshit.
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I wouldn't want that support right now.
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I'd never taken anything that way.
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I wouldn't.
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When I get something, I work hard for it."
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Ernest Scott wrote in his May 16, 1979 column that, "Joey doesn't believe he is capitalizing
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on his brother's fame.
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The same may not be said for the producers of Sunnyside who gave their relatively unknown
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Joey top billing over John Lansing and Stacey Pickeren."
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In the same column, Joey Chavulta said that his 66-year-old father Sam was making his
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film debut in Sunnyside too.
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And though he had no lines in that movie, Chavulta promised in my next picture, he will.
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In a syndicated column by Dorothy Trilor published in November 1978, Chavulta said he turned down
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a television role to appear in Sunnyside.
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The series Chavulta said was more his brother John Stylan said, "I'm not going to be a rip
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off for anybody."
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Chavulta told Chavulta columnist Douglas Thompson that he had a deal for a movie based on his
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own story called Steel Away, based on his dual career as a singer/teacher.
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Before he got into acting, Chavulta taught special ed students in Rockland County for three years.
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About Sunnyside, he said, "I can identify with much of it.
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I taught kids and people who were involved in gangs.
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I grew up in that kind of situation so I feel comfortable in the role."
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Chavulta also said he was in talks with Warner Bros. to produce a second script called
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"The Friend You Leave Behind."
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But neither that nor Steel Away was ever produced.
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Marilyn Beck's Hollywood column, published in January 1979, said Joey Chavulta reported
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to her that a truck bearing the film and other essential equipment broke down 300 miles
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south of San Francisco.
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And producer Robert Chavulta had to have the vehicle towed all the way to San Francisco
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where some filming took place for a whopping feed.
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When I was looking it up, this was in a contemporary news article.
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Even though other contemporary news articles did not mention San Francisco as a shooting site.
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So that discrepancy is there and I can't resolve it.
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Harry Hahn, writing for Liz Smith's column, reported in January of 1979 that Joan Darling,
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known as the director for the television show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,
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"Just finished playing Joey Chavulta's mother in his first film, Sunnyside.
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And she's telling most of LA that he'll be a bigger star than Brother John."
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Sunnyside was released on June 1st, 1979.
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It's greed at the Embassy 2 theater in New York City on opening day.
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Joey Chavulta was sent on a 75-city tour to promote the film.
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While in Atlanta, he told Scott Kane at the Atlanta Journal that he met with a famous fan in
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Los Angeles while filming Sunnyside.
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It was Lily and Carter, mother of then-president Jimmy Carter.
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Mrs. Carter was on the Merve Griffin show and was asked by Merve,
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which celebrities she'd most like to have dinner with.
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She had just seen Joey on television and decided that he was her favorite.
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Some were set up a dinner date for the two of them at Mamezhan in Los Angeles.
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And apparently it was a big success.
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Highlights for Sunnyside include,
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New York City 1979, every jungle needs a king.
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Joey Chavulta is tough, is tender, is terrific in Sunnyside.
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Sunnyside was released during a year in which the trend of game-related films made headlines,
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following violent incidents at theaters showing the warriors and boulevard nights.
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In comparison, the innocently titled Sunnyside received hardly any press for being a full-blown
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game picture as described by the June 6th 1979 variety review.
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The New York Daily News published a story on the film's opening day,
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reporting on how members of the Sunnyside Neighborhoods community planning board two
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planned to pick up that day at two movie houses and queens and at some others elsewhere.
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The group planned to urge moviegoers to boycott the film as a quote,
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"Slander against the people of Sunnyside."
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And contacted movie reviewers urging them to tour the real Sunnyside neighborhood before writing about the film.
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According to the article, the film depicts mean streets of low-income tenements gangs and hopeless kids,
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according to the producers.
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And that, according to Karen Berger Morello, chairman of the Sunnyside Community Board is beyond belief.
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Sunnyside is a decent, middle-class community with lots of trees, she declared angrily.
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We hope the movie just goes away. The article said the producers chose the name of their community
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to juxtapose the upbeat name with the urban despair depicted in the movie.
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Kind of funny that her name is Karen. Walter McCaffrey, vice chairman of the community board,
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said that the board was looking to take legal action somehow. They quoted him saying,
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"This is not an individual being maligned. It's a neighborhood, and it is difficult to find a legal
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hook to hang on," he said. But I'll tell you, I am not going to plunk down four dollars to see it.
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In Janet Maslin's New York Times review, she wrote that, yesterday's first show at the
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Embassy to Theater, the house had been taken over by a gang of kids who consumed a fifth of something
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or other, slam seats around, made a wide range of grunting noises and scream cat calls at the movie.
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Sex scenes made them particularly noisy, scenes at which gangs drew up war plans on the other hand
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held their wrapped attention. The theater's management made only half-hearted efforts to keep
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the movie audible in a situation under control.
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About the film itself, Maslin wrote, "Joy to Volta has the family smile, the family walk,
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the family haircut, and the family dairy air. He may also have some portion of the family acting
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talent, but a movie like Sunnyside designed almost entirely to capitalize on Mr. Tavolt's resemblance
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to his brother, makes it hard to hazard a guess. He's a lot more appealing than his surroundings,
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but these are so dismal that almost anything would look bright by comparison."
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A brief review in the Cleveland plane dealer said, "Joy to Volta's screen debut is a
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triumph for the unintelligible mumble, but in all else the story of gang rivalry in New York is a
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disaster. We did art for bad language, the only words really understandable."
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Jill Baltaki, writing for the Philadelphia Daily News, called Sunnyside, "An unassuming,
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unpretentious, laid-back little melodrama about gang life and family life, nothing special,
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but the performances are especially affecting a naturalistic. Tavolt, in particular, turns in and
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appealing assured, nice guy performance." Bill Wein in the Camden New Jersey career post called
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Sunnyside, "A pleasant surprise. Rarely have the warning signs for exploitation been more
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prominently displayed in advance than were those of Sunnyside. Here was a movie for the youth market,
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sort of a cross between Saturday Night Fever and the Warriors, during John Travolta's look-alike
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brother. It was a sure signal to lower one's expectations, to expect a cynical project,
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when packaged to exploit an undiscriminating audience enamored of anything or anyone who could
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capture visions of teen Isle John Travolta. From such lowered expectations, because of them perhaps,
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due pleasant surprises bring forth. Wein said while Sunnyside was no work of art,
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it was respectable, serious-minded, and moderately entertaining. And said Travolta had charm, talent,
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and a winning presence."
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So, Cheryl, I know Sunnyside came out in 1979, and I'm not sure the exact timeline,
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but this would be around the time when film ways was taking over. I don't think that was complete
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yet. I think this is full-on American international pictures still at this point.
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No, so we can't blame the Sun anyone else. I think that's what you're getting at, right? I think this
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is the first time we've seen Samuel Arkoff's son's name come up in a contemporary American
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International Pictures movie. He did work on some of their later projects after film ways
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had already taken over. Yeah, I do believe this is the first one we would see his name later when
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we go into the Rebel Highway series. In terms of what we've seen for the podcast,
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it's the first time his name's come up for us. Well, not exactly because he did appear as a dancer
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in Shake, Rattlin, Rock. Well, I was thinking more of his role as a producer, not an extra.
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I thought you're going to ask me how I felt about this movie. I was all set to render a judgment already.
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I don't have a whole lot to say about this movie, honestly. I don't have a lot to say either. I had
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absolutely no notes. I have concepts of notes. Well, let's hear them. This movie feels really long.
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The violence is brutish. The drama is muckish. It's got nothing I want in a movie. The sex scenes,
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well, the sex scene, I guess there's just really one of them, was gross. The characters are unlikable
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or you don't know them well enough to like them. Honestly, I feel like I like to Reaper better than
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anybody else in this movie. And he was a terrible character. I agree. I think Reaper is the most fun
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to watch of anybody in this film. He's got a unique look. He carries a cane around with him. He
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doesn't use it. He just likes to hold it. He's got a portrait of himself holding his cane in his bedroom
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where he has sex while his dad's having Bible study outside. Honestly, if this movie had been about him,
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I think it might have been a better project. This movie almost had me at the beginning when it seemed
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like it was going to be this gang taking it out the carnival. I thought, okay, this is something I can
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get behind. Yeah, I mean, who hasn't been ripped off by a carny? Although, I thought that was hilarious
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that this is not something that you're supposed to engage in violence over. That's just what happens
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when you go there. Everybody knows that except Joey Travolta's character who apparently is not
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that bright. I don't get the impression that anybody's too clever in this movie. Maybe Denny's got
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something on the ball who's graffiti got him a job at an ad agency after all. I think that was a flu
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because Denny doesn't seem that bright either. Oh, he doesn't. I mean, it was kind of a idiot in this
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movie. And it's just hard to like anyone. I kind of liked Ann and Denny together. It came out of nowhere.
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Two of them hooking up like that and then becoming a couple right away. Who cares? I don't care.
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Not really hard to care about much of anything in this film. No. And as you proceed toward the ending,
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and you know what's going to happen to Nick at the end, I was impatient for it to actually happen
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when we were watching it. We don't give you an idea how long the final scene between Donna and
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Nick actually is. They roll around in the grass. They plan for their future, which you know is not going
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to happen. We know it's not going to happen. They apparently believe it will. Is there not that bright?
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But we know what's going to happen in the next scene. Everyone's going to get massacred. They make
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their sappy plans for the future. He goes to leave and she makes some stop like three times. Hey,
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Nikki. Hey, Nikki. What? What? What? And she has to give him one more message. Just him or
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home the fact that they're never going to see each other alive again. And I was just shouting at the
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screen for him to just go already. It's irritating. Their love is irritating. It might have been a
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blessing, but it seemed to strange choice anyway to have that final massacred go as quickly as it did.
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Oh, yeah. Bam, bam, bam. It was done. It was probably very realistic in that regard. Oh, yeah.
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I'm sure. Well, I don't know. It wasn't very filmic. It was like I said, British violence. It
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happens quickly. People die. It's ugly. They're lying on trash bags and an alley. This movie is so
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ugly. Apparently the real sunny side neighborhood in Queens is much nicer, but they couldn't show that.
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They had to have the ghetto look. They have trees. I hear. Yeah, there weren't any trees in this movie.
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Well, maybe in that park scene, there were some trees. But yeah, this movie just doesn't offer
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anything for a viewer to enjoy unless you just want to see what's the deal with this joy,
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travel to guy anyway. You've seen Greece. You've seen Irwin Cowboy. You've seen Saturday night
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fever. What's his brother like? Well, this is what he's like and frankly, it's not that impressive.
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No offense, Joey, if you're listening, but this wasn't the movie for you. He's kind of old to
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be doing this part. Yeah. Joey, Travolta, was 27 at the time he was making this movie. So you think
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he'd kind of have his shit together by now. But no, he's just gang banging. Nick is a pig headed
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idiot too. There wasn't really a lot of familiar faces here. We had almost John Travolta's face.
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Yeah, sometimes it looked like him and sometimes it didn't look anything like him. Usually it sounded
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like him. Yeah, it does sound like him. Maybe I mentioned that Jonathan Grease appeared as wild
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child. Yeah, but I would never have pegged him as Uncle Rico. He looks the same except he didn't
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have that mustache. Oh, he's younger. Well, he's a lot younger. I recognize Eric and Lenoville. I
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think that's how you say it. He was in St. Elsewhere and I watched that series when it was on. And he's
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the guy with the stammer. He plays Gearbox here. And Billy Jacoby who plays the kid Billy was a child
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actor in a lot of things. He was Parker Lewis's friend and Parker Lewis can't lose. He goes by the name
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Billy Jay now apparently. Jay, a Y and E, but he went by Jacoby for a very long time. Michael T Williams
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is in this. Although I can't remember who he played. Not one of the guys that has any lines. Basically,
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he's just a gang member, but he would go on to be in a lot better productions than this. I think I know
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who he was in the movie. He was a night crawler. This movie reminds me of a much better movie that came
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out around the same time we mentioned earlier called the Warriors. That's a really good movie. That movie
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is very compelling. The characters are people that you care about. It's about a bunch of rival gangs
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and one of them gets unfairly pegged for a murder and they have to make their way back to their own
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burrow alive. And I watched that recently. That movie is a lot of fun. I also watched it back around
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the time when it came out maybe later. But you missed this one, huh? Yeah, I missed this one.
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But yeah, the Warriors is really good and this one isn't. That's all I can say. Yeah, I'm not sure
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what the point of this movie really was. I mean, other than a vehicle for Joey Chavolta. Yeah, if it
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has a moral, it's don't be in a gang idiot, that's the only thing that you can really take away from it.
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I'm just trying to figure out what was the motivation for A.I.P. to even make this film? Was it just because
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we have a chance to put Joey Chavolta, Judge of Volta's brother in a movie? So let's just do this and
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throw it out there because they didn't really care what they threw out as long as it was going to bring
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in money. Yeah, and I couldn't find out if this actually made any money, but honestly, what other
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motivation could they possibly have had? This movie has nothing going for it. It didn't seem like it
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would have had a two million dollar investment. It has a really large cast and those people had to be
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paid. True. And they did get that equipment stuck and they had to pay to have that towed somewhere.
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Sure, that was pricey. I don't even know what to say. I would never make this movie. I would have been
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okay if AIP had never released this movie and I never had to watch it. Yeah, we've been dreading
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this one for a while. We have our movies picked out through the end of the year right now.
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And we knew this was coming and we made our way through it. We're almost done with it now.
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And that's the best I can say about it. We almost don't have to ever talk about it again.
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If it was only a gang versus the carnival, it would be something worth watching. Yeah, I can see
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that. I don't know. They may be a germ of a good story here, but I can't identify it.
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You need to be invested in at least one of the characters. And the villain of the story, Eddie
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Reaper, is the most interesting. Which isn't unusual. The villains usually are. Right.
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I would say that second might be Reggie just because he kind of stands out because he's so dumb.
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He feels like the gang's mascot more than a member. Right. But they did give him a gun. So,
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I don't know. They don't treat him any differently than they treat everybody else. He has important jobs
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that he has to carry out. He's counting cigarettes, taking deliveries from gangsters. He's the only one
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in the clubhouse when they know that trouble is all around. They didn't do a very good job of
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taking care of him. As many people are in that gang, they could have doubled up that night or tripled up.
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He didn't have to be there all by himself. I guess celebrating Nick's mom's birthday was more
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important than keeping Reggie alive. So, I don't think it's gonna be a big surprise, but why don't you
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give her waiting to Sunnyside using our AIP scale where ‘A' is awesome. ‘I' is intermediate and 'P' is
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pathetic. 'P,' there's not a lot to say. I can't think of one good thing about this movie. Usually,
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I can find something about it. The music was terrible. It was grimy and dreary looking. The acting is
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not great. The characters don't care. Couldn't wait for them to die. And my only pleasure was
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in seeing the end credits role so that we could be done with it. P pathetic. What do you think?
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I'm gonna give it a 'P' for painful. This is not a fun movie at all. I did not enjoy it. I was
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optimistic that there might be something in here worth watching. And if that carnival thing had
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happened, I was okay. I can get behind this. This might be good, but that was just something to move
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the plot forward a little bit and it didn't even matter at the end. And that was the most interesting
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part. It was when Nick got the map on the floor and it's putting everything out and said, okay,
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this is how we're gonna take out the carnival. But then they just took out the carnival and
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never went back there. Well, I think the carnival learned his lesson. So they lost me after that.
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So yeah, this movie is a P. And that's too bad because we wasted a lot of precious time on this.
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They wasted a lot of money on this. I don't think this movie did that great. The box office,
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Joey Trevolta's career didn't take off. Like John Trevolta's did. You know, John Travolta's
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still out there making movies not all good, but he's still working. And Joey Travolta is still working,
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but he's not doing blockbusters. So yeah, so unless you have a need to see Joey Trevolta in his prime,
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I really can't recommend this film. He doesn't even sing. He was only a singer before he got this job.
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And no, he's an actor singer. But yeah, don't bother. What you can bother with, though, is checking out
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our website, aippod.com. We have information on all the movies we've ever covered, links to the episodes,
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I don't recommend you find Sunnyside, but there might be other movies you want to check out,
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and we give you a clue on how to find them. If they're findable, that's aippod.com.
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I think that's enough of trying to make light of Sunnyside for the American International
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